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Usury

2014
Usury has a long and varied history. Originally the term referred to the charging of interest per se—that is, requiring a borrower to repay more than the principal sum borrowed from a lender. Over time borrowing and lending evolved to become an integral part of commercial life, and usury came to refer to the charging of excessive or unconscionable ...
Ian Harper, Lachlan Smirl
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In Defense of Usury Laws [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009
Usury law is often criticized by economists for curtailing lending and thus creating deadweight costs. This paper shows that if moral hazard leads to credit rationing, a just‐binding usury law creates a deadweight gain. This property also holds in most market‐clearing equilibria.
Giuseppe Coco, David De Meza
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The Talmud on usury

Economic Affairs, 2023
AbstractA ban on usury was endorsed by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Usury was banned in the Books of Moses, but defined in the Babylonian Talmud as a ‘reward for waiting’. Conceptions of usury in early Christianity and Islam accorded with that of the Talmud.
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Usury on labor

Electrical Engineering, 1932
Too great success in cornering our mediums of production is considered responsible by many for our present industrial instability; the result is usury on labor. This is the fifteenth article in the Engineering Foundation's symposium “Has Man Benefited by Engineering Progress?”
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Milton and Usury

English Literary Renaissance, 2011
AbstractLike his father before him, John Milton was a lifelong professional usurer. At a time when that profession was held in general contempt, this fact must have impinged upon his life in many and various ways. It seems clear, for example, that Milton's fraught first marriage was the fruit of usury.
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The Riddle of Usury

2019
This chapter argues that Étienne Cleirac's words locate him at an important and little understood historical junction, when the late medieval habit of treating money and the economy as part of the moral and theological universe intersected with the emerging “science of commerce.” This literature assigned multifarious meanings to the word usury.
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On Usury [PDF]

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A brief comment on usury. Submitted to Monetary Policy.
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Usury and the Usury Laws

Michigan Law Review, 1925
R. G. Rodkey, Franklin Winton Ryan
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