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Book Synopsis The Roots of Western Finance by : Thomas K. Park
Download or read book The Roots of Western Finance written by Thomas K. Park and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roots of Western Finance takes an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. The authors reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.
Book Synopsis The Roots of Western Finance by : Thomas K. Park
Download or read book The Roots of Western Finance written by Thomas K. Park and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Roots of Western Finance, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period of five thousand years from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. Park and Greenberg reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.
Book Synopsis Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance by : James B. Greenberg
Download or read book Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance written by James B. Greenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance takes an anthropological approach to the roots of Western finance and credit in ancient societies from early Mesopotamia to eleventh-century Islam. The authors reveal that credit is not just an economic transaction but also a social relationship and a technology of power.
Book Synopsis Terrestrial Transformations by : Thomas K. Park
Download or read book Terrestrial Transformations written by Thomas K. Park and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The authors examine the political contexts of a broad range of environmental and social problems, drawing attention to the political and economic forces driving environmental and ecological problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt to cope and adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price.
Book Synopsis Reenvisioning Christian Ethics by : Darryl W. Stephens
Download or read book Reenvisioning Christian Ethics written by Darryl W. Stephens and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian ethics is a wide and varied field; so diverse are the methods and approaches, theological perspectives and starting points, and scopes of inquiry and purposes—dare we even call it a discipline?—that the field is rarely considered as a whole. Christian ethics includes historical, descriptive, critical, constructive, and applied projects on countless topics. Lending creative energy to this field of study are a range of partner disciplines, including, most prominently, theology, philosophy, and sociology, each containing multiple schools themselves. To envision the entire field of Christian ethics is a difficult task; to reenvision the entire field may perhaps be impossible for one person. Thus, this publication includes original research by multiple scholars, each offering a distinct perspective from their primary partner discipline. Chapters include Roman Catholic and Protestant voices from Europe, Asia, and North America. In aggregate, these writings contribute to a composite reenvisioning of Christian ethics, refracting our collective vision through the prisms of diverse academic and methodological perspectives in this vast field of inquiry, study, and practice.
Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by Barry J. Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors. In this volume, Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years, whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents, while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies, illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader.
Book Synopsis Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther by : Ivan Light
Download or read book Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther written by Ivan Light and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther: Rediscovering the Moral Economy, Ivan Light and Léo-Paul Dana study the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital. Six chapters evaluate case studies that illustrate contrasting relationships between social networks, vocational culture, and entrepreneurship. Light and Dana argue that, in capitalism’s early stages, cultural capital is scarcer than social capital and therefore more crucial for business owners. Conversely, when capitalism is well established, social capital is scarcer than cultural capital and becomes more crucial. Light and Dana then trace moral legitimations of capitalism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, the Gilded Age, and finally to Joseph Schumpeter whose concept of “creative destruction” freed elite entrepreneurs from moral restraints that encumber small business owners. After examining the availability of social and cultural capital in the contemporary United States, Light and Dana show that business owners’ social capital enforces conventional morality in markets, facilitating commerce and legitimating small businesses the old-fashioned way. As their networks become more isolated, elite entrepreneurs must claim and ultimately deliver successful results to earn public toleration of immoral or predatory conduct.
Book Synopsis Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis by : Arthur MacEwan
Download or read book Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis written by Arthur MacEwan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful book offers a widely accessible account of the recent economic collapse and crisis, emphasizing the deep nexus of economic inequality, undemocratic power, and leave-it-to-the-market ideology at its root. Based on their understanding of the origins of the crisis, the authors propose a program for reform that is equally dependent on poppular action and changes in government policy.
Book Synopsis The Emergence of China's Smart State by : Rogier Creemers
Download or read book The Emergence of China's Smart State written by Rogier Creemers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers Chinese technology policy, key emerging technologies, international engagement, and central-local relations"--
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance by : Karin Knorr Cetina
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance written by Karin Knorr Cetina and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical development. Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating agencies, and the role of financial economics. Particular attention is given to financial crises, which are discussed in a special section, as well as to alternative forms of finance, including Islamic finance and the rise of China. The Handbook will be an indispensable tool for academics, researchers, and students of contemporary finance and economic sociology, and will serve as a reference point for the expanding international community of scholars researching these areas from a broadly-defined sociological perspective.
Book Synopsis Settler Economies in World History by :
Download or read book Settler Economies in World History written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settler Economies in World History is a comparative, wide-ranging historical study of the experience of the modern settler societies that have followed a distinctive economic and institutional path to the present from their neo-European origins.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of the State Bank of India, the Roots, 1806-1876: The early years, 1806-1860 by : Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Download or read book The Evolution of the State Bank of India, the Roots, 1806-1876: The early years, 1806-1860 written by Amiya Kumar Bagchi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meticulously researched first volume, economic historian Dr. A.K. Bagchi draws on previously inaccessible State Bank archives to detail the unique evolution of India's premier banking institution from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century.
Book Synopsis Exploring the Roots of Systematic Tax Avoidance in Greece by : Zoi Pittaki
Download or read book Exploring the Roots of Systematic Tax Avoidance in Greece written by Zoi Pittaki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interaction between business and the system of taxation in Greece, from the mid-1950s up to 2008, the year that marked the eve of the economic crisis the country faced in the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 2007. The evidence presented confirms William Baumol’s point about how taxation affects entrepreneurship. That is, it is shown that Baumol was right when indicating that problematic tax rules can lead to unproductive forms of entrepreneurship, such as tax evasion. However, the focus here is on aspects of the system of taxation that Baumol’s model, examining solely tax rates and levels of taxation, neglected. This book shows that, as far as Greek entrepreneurship is concerned, the adverse effects of the system of taxation came mostly from a series of issues that increased its perceived unfairness and illegitimacy. The way that the tax system functioned also increased uncertainty, which was anything but beneficial for investing in business. This book contributes to the current debates about the Greek economy and the causes of the crisis affecting the country. In this respect, it also throws light on the big issue of tax evasion burdening the country’s fiscal system. However, the research also belongs to the wider literature examining entrepreneurship from a business history perspective, to that focusing on the relation between entrepreneurship and institutions, to the debates regarding the ways entrepreneurship is affected by the socio-political and economic environment but also to institutional analyses about taxation.
Book Synopsis Financial Vipers of Venice by : Joseph P. Farrell
Download or read book Financial Vipers of Venice written by Joseph P. Farrell and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated sequel to Joseph P. Farrell's "Babylon's Banksters." The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia to Venice...
Book Synopsis The Rightful Way of Banking by : Shahid M. K. Ghauri
Download or read book The Rightful Way of Banking written by Shahid M. K. Ghauri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has taken over five centuries for banking to evolve to its present state, and the concept of “interest” is undoubtedly the life-blood of the whole financial system. Interest was religiously prohibitive for centuries in several faiths, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and, Islam, and was also strongly opposed by neo-classical economists in the 1930s. Interest (riba) is still outlawed in Islam, with the term “riba-eater” being one of the cruellest insults. Islamic scholars have explained that the current practice of contracts without interest is a result of following the jurisprudence laid in the Quran and Sunnah of Prophet Mohammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). As such, this mode of banking and finance without riba is recognised as “Islamic banking”. This name has often been criticised by scholars as there is no philosophy of banking in Islamic teachings. Consequently, some of the banks that follow these regulations have adopted other names, such as savings banks and finance houses. This book explains the philosophies behind the current trend in riba-free banking which is implemented as Islamic banking around the world. The book is divided into five sections, the first of which is related to the introduction of riba-free banking. The second is related to the fundamentals, concepts and beliefs of riba-free banking organisations, while the third differentiates between two streams of financial models. The fourth section explains risk management in riba-free banking, while the final section discusses international institutions related to the riba-free financial system. The book also contains a glossary of terms related to riba-free banking, and a terms index for reader’s ease in academic study.
Book Synopsis The Roots of American Communism by : Victor W. Turner
Download or read book The Roots of American Communism written by Victor W. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist Party in America--from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s--Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy "was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power," a fact that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, American Communism and Soviet Russia. In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually been all things to all men... There are many ways of trying to understand such a movement, but the first task is historical. In some respects, there is no other way to understand it, or at least to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends to be static, one-sided or unbalanced." Draper correctly notes that the formative period of the American Communist movement has remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part, the reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was not something that happened just in Russia, but also in the United States. This is a must read for scholars and laypersons alike. This volume is conceived as an independent and self-contained study of the American Communist movement. Draper correctly notes that the formative period is largely untold and even unknown. In part, the reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. Draper appreciates the fact that communism was not something that happened only in Russia, but also took place in the United States. That experience is the focus of this volume.
Book Synopsis Russia, the Roots of Confrontation by : Robert Vincent Daniels
Download or read book Russia, the Roots of Confrontation written by Robert Vincent Daniels and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. It springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its international relations can be understood only in light of the traumas and triumphs, privation and privileges that the country weathered under the tsars and the Soviets.
