Popes and bankers
Subtitle: a cultural history of credit and debit from Aristotle to AIG
By: Jack Cashill.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595552730
Subjects: Banks and banking -- History; Credit -- History; Usury -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The seventh circle; title: Unto a stranger; title: Hoping for nothing again; title: Master of those who know; title: Prepared for the crown; title: Aboveboard; title: The rules of equity; title: I stand here for law; title: Prodigals and projectors; title: Tulips; title: Bubbles; title: The family business; title: The socialism of fools; title: The country of religiosity; title: Time is money; title: Jackson days; title: A mountain load of debt; title: Cross of gold; title: Wizard of finance; title: Jekyll island; title: Birth of the consumer; title: Expelling the money changers; title: Holy land; title: The market's fools; title: Membership has its privileges; title: The greed decade; title: Age of innocence; title: Babel; title: House on fire; title: Restoration.