The Church and the Usurers: Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
Professor McCall places the issues confronting our debt based economy in a deeply rooted historical context. His book shows how the Church has preserved the ancient insights of Biblical teaching, Roman law and Aristotelian philosophy and how these provide a framework for addressing the global problem of indebtedness. --Andrew V. Abela, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Business & Economics, The Catholic University of AmericaThe Church and the Usurers goes boldly where few conventional economists seem prepared to follow. In seeing usury at the heart of the present global crisis, Brian McCall is using ancient and timeless wisdom to illustrate not merely the roots of the modern economic malaise but the way forward into a fiscally just future. --Joseph Pearce, Author, Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families MatterIn this marvelously clear and compact study, Professor McCall explains what usury is, how its evils have provoked massive distortions in our society through the system of money, banking and credit, what the Church really teaches on usury, and the enduring relevance of that teaching. This book is a decisive blow against a major facet of the economic liberalism condemned by Pope after Pope. The Church and the Usurers is a landmark work. --Christopher A. Ferrara, Author, The Church and the Libertarian