Financial institutions

Topics

What is money? Who invented it? How has it developed?
Anthropology of money vs. fictional accounts.
What are financial institutions? Bank-led and stock-market-led financial systems.
Usury and Islamic finance.

Read

Ritter et al, “Financial System Design.”

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Hoppit, "Attitudes to credit in Britain, 1680–1790"

Hoppit – 1990 – Attitudes to credit in Britain, 1680–1790

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"The Man Who Turned Credit Card Points Into an Empire"

Activities

Simmel, "General Relations between a Money Economy and the Principle of Individualism"

Bentham, "Defence of Usury"

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