Hidden interests in credit and finance: power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium

Abstract

Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition -- Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken -- Early European finance 1050-1650 -- Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe -- Mercantile credit and the Atlantic slave trade -- Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in rural Morocco -- Ethnicity and social capital in 1970s sefrou -- Problematizing modern consumer credit -- An anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis -- Conclusion: hidden interests and the development of finance