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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 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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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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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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BPJS Kesehatan dalam Perspektif Ekonomi Syariah
Ahkam: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah, 2016 This article provides answer to the MUI statements that BPJS is inconsistent with the principles of sharia economics. First, a solution to avoid Gharar, where participants pay a monthly premium, but it is unclear how much they will receive.Second, the ...
Itang Itang
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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, 2001 This paper shows that if moral hazard leads to credit rationing, an appropriate usury law must raise social welfare. Under market clearing, a usury law is always beneficial if funds are inelastically supplied.
de Meza, David, Coco, Giuseppe
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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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