The Price of Time: Interest, Capitalism and the Curse of Easy Money by Edward Chancellor

The Price of Time: Interest, Capitalism and the Curse of Easy Money

Edward Chancellor

368 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

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With clarity and precision, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law's ill-fated Mississippi scheme to the global credit booms of the...

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