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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
wiley   +1 more source

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.
doaj   +1 more source

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
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
doaj  

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.
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez‐Ancochea   +1 more
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Do Catholics Support Non-usury Banks [PDF]

, 2022
In 1992, Bank Muamalat Indonesia suited a pioneer of Islamic banks in the world's most populous Muslim country. The prohibition of usury is not only in the Islamic Law because there are also in other religions. The number of non-Muslim customers in
Rosadi, Lidya, Hariadi, Sugeng
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