Download or read book The Ethic of Usury and Interest a Study in Inorganic Socialism written by William Blissard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blissard challenges conventional wisdom on the morality of usury and interest in this provocative study. Arguing that the usury laws of the past were intended to protect the interests of the ruling class rather than the poor, Blissard proposes a radical rethinking of the role of finance in society. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Ethics of Usury written by Ben Cooper and published by Latimer Studies. This book was released on 2012 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the current financial crisis and astonishing levels of personal debt, it would be impossible to argue that the practice of lending and borrowing money at interest is always morally acceptable. Is the biblical answer simply to say "No" to the practice of lending and borrowing money at interest? It would be fair to say that for the major part of church history the mainstream view has been strongly against it. However, something has clearly changed. Christians today happily take out mortgages and keep their money in banks which then lend at interest to others. Christians may even personally profit from the lending of money at interest. Is this change of attitude a humane ethical evolution, regardless of what the Scriptures say? And, if so, can the same principle then be applied to other ethical issues? Or should we attack the contemporary moral laxity of Christians on this issue, and call for a return to the prohibition? Or might there be a different answer? Ben Cooper is Minister for Training at Christ Church Fulwood in Sheffield. Before training for ordained ministry, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in economic theory at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is married to Catherine and has three children, Lizzy, Samuel and Naomi. He is author of Must God Punish Sin (Latimer Study 62, 2006) and Paul in 3D: Preaching Paul as Pastor, Story-teller and Sage (Latimer Study 68, 2008).
Download or read book The Ethic of Usury and Interest written by William Blissard and published by London : S. Sonnenschein & Company ; New York : C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1892 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Usury written by Adrian Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this volume is on justice and morality, the author supplying intellectual tools for distinguishing between morally acceptable and morally unacceptable forms of money lending and reserving the term 'usury' for its unacceptable variants. On this account, some forms of lending should be prohibited. Use is made of both historical material from debates on the immorality of usury and modern analytic political philosophy.
Download or read book The Ethic of Usury and Interest written by William Blissard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ethic of Usury and Interest: A Study in Inorganic Socialism The abolition of the Usury Laws, which has only been consummated within the last half century, has raised the presumption that Usury itself was then abolished - in other words, that Capital was, thenceforward, morally entitled to whatever share of the produce of Industry which it could appropriate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Usury A Scriptural Ethical and Economic View written by Calvin Elliott and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Ethic of Usury and Interest a Study in Inorganic Socialism written by William Blissard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii. property in labour as the basis of interest. The question of Usury is so obviously dependent on the rights of labour, that the first point must be, to consider what these rights are. Clearly, if workers in general are enjoying their full property in their labour, there could be no further question of Usury or no Usury. Every just demand would, in such case, be satisfied, and discontent would show as a mere ebullition of covetousness. No one, however, believes, or in view of the actual facts, can pretend, that an ideal justice is being practically carried out in the economy of Society. The natural right1 of possession is derived from labour. What we use, is either a free gift of Nature, like water, air, herbs, wild fruits and berries, trees for fuel, and caverns for shelter, or such transformation of the free gifts of nature, as may be 1 By Natural Rights are here meant the elementary moral rights of human beings not considered as members of an organised Society. effected by man's labour and ingenuity, working by means of the forces and fertilities of Nature. As for the free gifts of Nature which in their widest sense, include the soil of the earth, its waters, and atmosphere, its forces and fertilities, that which grows upon its surface without cultivation, and that which lies beneath its surface--there can be no natural right in particular persons to exclusive possession of any of these. They are the inheritance of the whole race. Any private property in them is artificial, the creature of Civil Law. "To reconcile people to this, after they have once admitted into their minds the idea that any moral rights belong to them as human beings, it will always be necessary to convince them that this exclu
Download or read book USURY A Scriptural Ethical and Economic View written by Calvin Elliot and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word usury was very odious to the Christian mind and conscience. The moral nature of an act does not depend on the enacted statutes of human legislators, and the laws of economics are eternal. We must not permit our views of divine and economic truth to be perverted by this modern division of increase into legal and illegal. In order that the whole truth may be now expressed in our language we must combine with the old word usury the new word interest; then only will we have the full force of the revealed truth. Throughout this discussion usury is used in its full old classical meaning for any increase of a loan, great or small, whether authorized or forbidden by the civil state.
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Download or read book The Ethic of Usury and Interest a Study in Inorganic Socialism Scholar s Choice Edition written by William Blissard and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Churches and Usury Or The Morality of Five Per Cent written by H Shields Rose and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critique of the practice of usury, or lending money at exorbitant rates of interest, from a Christian perspective. The author, H. Shields Rose, argues that usury is morally reprehensible and contrary to the teachings of the Bible. He also examines the historical and economic factors that led to the rise of usury in Europe and America. This thought-provoking work will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of religion and economics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Ethics of Interest written by Lewis Watt and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beggar Thy Neighbor written by Charles R. Geisst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Download or read book Reforming the Morality of Usury written by David W. Jones and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the sixteenth century, the Church experienced a dramatic shift in its moral perception of the practice of usury. Leaders of the continental Protestant Reformation (Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist) all grappled with the Roman Catholic Church's moral teaching on the practice of lending money at interest. Although these three theological streams addressed the same moral problem, at relatively the same time, they each responded differently. Reforming the Morality of Usury examines how the leaders of each major stream in the continental Protestant Reformation adopted a different approach to reforming moral teaching on the practice of usury.
Download or read book Usury A Scriptural Ethical and Economic View written by Calvin Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scholastic Analysis of Usury written by John Thomas Noonan and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
