Laurence Fontaine (Pa Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

The Moral Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe, focusing on lending practices and the values that structured them. Laurence Fontaine creates a dialogue between past and present, contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781107603707
• ISBN-10: 1107603706
• Artikelnr.: 40128801

Autorenporträt

Laurence Fontaine is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Formerly a professor in the History and Civilization Department at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, she has published many books and articles in major European journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Prologue
1. Poverty, credit and social networks
2. Peasants and debt logic
3. The elite and debt logic
4. Urban financial microcircuits
5. Women's economic spheres and credit
6. Between bank and assistance: setting up pawnshops
7. The battle of prohibitions against usury
8. Political economies and cultures of exchange
9. Political economy and exchange practices
10. Building trust
Conclusion.