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Usury Ceilings, Relationships and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Nineteenth Century [PDF]
Few pieces of economic regulation are ubiquitous as usury limits. Similarly, few economic principles are as widely accepted as the belief that interference with freely contracted prices leads to market distortions, and many studies of financial markets ...
Howard Bodenhorn
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Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 578-593, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each
Jonathan Parry
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Usury Redux: Notes on The Scholastic Analysis of Usury by John T. Noonan [PDF]
I summarize the key points of the scholastic theory of usury following The Scholastic Analysis of Usury by John T. Noonan. Usury is the sin of taking interest on a loan without a just title.
Joseph Burke
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Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2022 Sabri F. Ülgener (1911-1983), with his ability to combine eastern and western cultures in his own character, his rigorous and disciplined way of working and his ability to use different sources in his research, also has an important place in the aspect ...
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The Roles of Agricultural Credit, Financial Development, and Renewable Energy for Food Security
Food and Energy Security, Volume 15, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Access to credit and renewable energy adoption are crucial for promoting food security in emerging economies. This study examines the long‐term impact of agricultural credit, financial development, and renewable energy on food security and agricultural production in India from 2000 to 2022.
Xiaoping Tang +4 more
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Prodigals and Projecture: An Economic History of Usury Laws in the United States from Colonial Times to 1900 [PDF]
During the Colonial era usury laws in the United States were strict both in terms of the maximum rate that could be charged and the penalties that would be imposed.
Hugh Rockoff
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, 2020 Folder contains documents about the usury limit issue discussed at the Arkansas Constitutional Convention.
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Interest rate restrictions in a natural experiment: loan allocation and the change in the usury laws in 1714 [PDF]
This article studies the effects of interest rate restrictions on loan allocation. The British government tightened the usury laws in 1714, reducing the maximum permissible interest rate from 6% to 5%.
Peter Temin, Joachim Voth
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Money for Nothing: The Sin of Usury [PDF]
I present an overview of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on usury. In 1515, the Fifth Lateran Council defined “the real meaning of usury: when, from its use, a thing which produces nothing is applied to the acquiring of gain and profit without
Joseph Burke
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Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah’s Usury Concept [PDF]
, 2018 This article uses a literature review approach focusing on explaining how the concept of usury in the view of Ibn al-Qayyim al-jawziyyah. This article asserts that usury is one of the forbidden transactions in Islam because it is recorded in the letter ...
Gunarso, Gatot Hadi
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