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The Usurious Nature of Excessive Interest Rate in The Algerian Banking Legal System

open access: yesمجلة القانون، المجتمع والسلطة
The Algerian banking law's omission of the term "Riba" is a notable feature, especially in a country where Islamic finance has garnered significant attention across various sectors.
Abdelhafid Ahamane
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Money and sociality: Measuring the unmeasurable money as justice, time and usury [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2016
Levinas confirms: a reflection about a money as a social and economical reality is not possible without a serious analysis of empirical data. On the other hand, this reflection always involves something else, so a money is never a merely ...
Janković Zoran
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Social Diseases and Social Problems: An Islamic Framework for Cultural Awareness And Social Diagnosis

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 4, November 2026.
Despite decades of policy interventions, the world suffers from profound social problems including drug abuse, family breakdown, and systemic injustice. The research problem is the persistent gap in existing sociological theories: objective criteria lacking for diagnosing social harm before it becomes visible.
Jilani Ben Touhami Meftah
wiley   +1 more source

Ribā dan Ketidakadilan Sistem Ekonomi Kapitalisme, Sebuah Kajian Teoritis

open access: yesIslamic Economics Journal, 2017
The failures of capitalism economic in realizing justice and prosperity is due to the implementation of the interest system (usury system). In the long term usury system pose a huge gap between communities.
Muhammad Ghozali, Yusi Septa Prasetya
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How investors account for the quick and the dead

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Frederick F. Wherry
wiley   +1 more source

The Spatial Impact of Judicial Administration on Firms' Performance

open access: yesLABOUR, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 263-290, September 2026.
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

“I'm all there for her”: Perspectives of Arab mothers in Israel on mother–daughter relationships in young adulthood

open access: yesFamily Relations, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 1618-1635, July 2026.
Abstract Objective This study aimed to explore how Arab mothers in Israel perceive their intergenerational relationships with young adult daughters within the sociocultural context of Arab society and their intersecting marginalized positions as women and ethnic minority members.
Haneen Karram‐Elias
wiley   +1 more source

Usury

open access: yes, 2017
This thesis focuses on the analysis of usury as a negative social phenomenon from the perspective of Czech law in the Czech courts. It is mainly focused on examining this issue in a broader context.
Sedlmajerová, Tereza
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Disentangling Inequality and Exploitation in the Rice Value Chain in Northern Uganda

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Although inequality between actors in agricultural value chains has been extensively studied, informal and semiformal arrangements in domestic value chains involving small‐scale actors have been explored less than formal arrangements involving large firms.
Malin J. Nystrand
wiley   +1 more source

Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 561-632, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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