The Political Economy and Ethics of Debt Financing: The Brutality of the Charging of Interest on Loans

by Patrick O'Sullivan and Paolo Ricci

This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans. It endeavours to show the immense relevance of those ancient debates in the contemporary economy .

Outside of countries which practise Islam and Islamic finance the charging of interest is taken completely for granted today and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032900679
• ISBN13: 9781032900674
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages