Usury in the Ancient World

Rosa-Maria Gelpi and François Julien-Labruyère
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Rosa-Maria Gelpi: Cetelem Professor of Economics Université Libre de Lille
François Julien-Labruyère: International CEO, member of the Board of Cetelem

Chapter 1 in The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices, 2000, pp 3-14 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Regulation of interest-based loans is at the very heart of the earliest legal texts dating from antiquity. For this reason, some historians have come to believe that the practice may well be of much earlier origin and may date from the period of agricultural settling in the neolithic age.

Keywords: Interest Rate; Consumer Credit; Ancient World; Agricultural Settling; Greek City (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554511_1

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