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Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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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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The Long Arc of Forest Land Dispossession and Degradation—Firm and State Actions on Sámi Lands in the Wood‐Based Commodity Frontier in Northern Sweden, 1673–1955

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
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Usury, law and emotions in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Krystyn Ostrowski’s adaptation Lichwiarz (1861)

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The 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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Towards a Responsible Liberalism

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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Profit ‘That is Condemned by the Word of God’: John Jewel’s Theological Method in His Opposition to Usury

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2015
John Jewel, regarded as the principal apologist and theologian for the Elizabethan Church, was also esteemed as one of England’s most important (if not the most important) authority on the subject of usury, and therefore was cited frequently by opponents
Gazal André A.
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RIBA DALAM AL-QURAN: SEBUAH KAJIAN ANTROPOLOGIS

Al-Mazaahib, 2015
This article examines the concept of riba in the Qur'an. It was conducted by reviewing the texts of the Koran which speak of usury and explore the practice of usury in Arab society at the time of the Qur'an was revealed.
Ahmad Muzhaffar dkk.
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ANALISIS PEMIKIRAN MUHAMMAD SYAFI’I ANTONIO TENTANG RIBA DAN BUNGA BANK

Muamalah, 2020
The study is titled “Analysis Thought Muhammad Syafi'i Antonio about Riba and Interest Bank, with the background of the problem that in maintaining the benefit of human life from moral damages (morals), social, and economic then Islam firmly and ...
Nia Yuliana, M Harun, Fatah Hidayat
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The Spatial Impact of Judicial Administration on Firms' Performance

LABOUR, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the indirect effects of judicial adminstration (JA) on neighbouring firms operating in southern Italian regions characterised by endemic organised crime. When a mafia‐affiliated firm is placed under JA, the sector‐specific relational networks it sustained are abruptly severed. Using difference‐in‐differences estimators,
Vincenzo Sessa
wiley   +1 more source

RIBA DALAM PERSPEKTIF AL-QURAN

Li Falah: Jurnal Studi Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam, 2017
This paper aims to understand the meaning and essence of usury in the Koran, thus providing a complete understanding to distinguish transactional practices that have prevailed in the Arab community, including the sale and purchase and to understand ...
Muhammad Hasdin Has
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