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Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2014 What were the stakes of the implementation of the tsedaqah in Mediterranean Europe during the Late Middle Ages? Although the sources are incomplete and scattered because of the loss and of the dispersal of the medieval Jewish communities’ archives, the ...
Claude Denjean +2 more
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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, 2019 In Western economies, the charging of interest for loans is just something that is rarely questioned. It is deemed necessary, in order to generate income and to offset the risk that loans might not be repaid (Benfield, 1968). Modern Western legal prohibitions against usury, such as they are, centre on the notion of preventing financial service ...
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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“Talk of contracts”: Gift-giving vs. Reciprocity in James Joyce’s “A Mother”
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 This essay measures the extent to which gift-giving fails in an economy of reciprocity. Reading James Joyce’s story “A Mother” in terms of Derrida’s notion of the gift as “absolute loss,” I consider the implications of an economy of loss for Joyce’s ...
Raghinaru Camelia
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Freedom of Contract in the Habsburg Monarchy. The Prohibition of Usury in Galicia
Journal on European History of Law, 2018 The article discusses the evolution of legislation on usury in the constitutional era of the Habsburg Monarchy and an analysis of Austrian legal regulations containing the first modern definition of usury in the European legislation.
Andrzej Dziadzio
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The Effects of Iran Economic Conditions on Weak Performance of Islamic Banking System in Iran [PDF]
تحقیقات مالی, 2012 The newly established system of Islamic economy in Iran, specifically the non-usury banking system is in need of appropriate conditions to attain its goals.
Mohammad Talebi +2 more
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Regulation of Usury: Justification, Consequences, and Some Lessons from Polish Experience
Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2022 In this paper we analyse a recent debate on justification of usury regulations and their implications. To investigate the impact of liberal, competition-enhancing policy on usurious practices, we present a case study of the Polish payday loan market ...
Ryszard Kowalski, Grzegorz Wałęga
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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Acta Iuris StetinensisThe paper discusses the representation of usury in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and the Polish adaptation Lichwiarz by Krystyn Ostrowski. This research aims to show how Shakespeare presented usury in his play and how Ostrowski modified it
Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup
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