The History of Consumer Credit

Doctrines and Practices

By: R. Gelpi, F. Julien-LabruyÃ¨re

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Hardcover | 2 March 2000 | Edition Number 1

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From the early forms of loans to farmers to present day credit cards, consumer credit has always been part of human life and economics. However, ever since the Bible, controversy has reigned as to its legitimacy. It is the history of this controversy that is presented here by the authors. Outlining significant developments in different aspects of consumer credit from the Hammurabi Code through to current questions such as household overindebtedness, they shed some historical light on modern debates.

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List of Plates	p. viii
Preface	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Credit from Ancient to Modern Times: Dogma Versus Practice	p. 1
Usury in the Ancient World	p. 3
The Code of Hammurabi	p. 3
Credit and Serfdom in Ancient Greece	p. 4
The Great Legal Reforms of Solon	p. 6
The First Philosophical Condemnations of Interest-bearing Loans: Plato and Aristotle	p. 7
Credit and Society in Republican Rome	p. 9
Usury, an Endemic Evil in the Empire	p. 10
Almsgiving versus Usury	p. 15
Biblical Bans	p. 15
Prophetic Inspiration	p. 17
Religious Sanctions and the Church Fathers	p. 19
The First Civil Ban: the Admonitio Generalis of Charlemagne	p. 22
Credit and Civilization in Visigoth Catalonia	p. 25
The Two-sided Attitude of the Church	p. 29
Medieval Changes	p. 30
Opposition of the Feudal World to Changes in Society	p. 33
From Opposition to Compromise: the Scholastic Doctrine on Usury	p. 34
Medieval Practices	p. 38
The First Monts-de-Pietes in Italy	p. 42
The Cleavage of the Reformation	p. 46
Luther's Hesitation	p. 46
Calvin's Contribution	p. 49
The Abolition Movement	p. 53
The Hypocritical Masks of the Ancien Regime	p. 58
The Ideology of the Counter-Reformation	p. 58
The Spirit of the Ancien Regime	p. 59
Debt: Remedy, Poison or Propitietary Victim?	p. 63
The Spanish Caricature	p. 66
The Contrast of the Enlightenment	p. 70
Diversity of Laws and Practices	p. 70
Bentham's Treatise	p. 73
Turgot's Memoire	p. 77
Toward an Economic Concept	p. 84
The Dangers of Consumption	p. 84
Consumption and Crisis	p. 89
Consumer Credit in Contemporary Societies: Practice Versus Dogma	p. 95
The American Way	p. 97
Origins	p. 97
The Development of Studies and Regulation	p. 101
The Emblem of American Society	p. 105
Consumer Credit, Growth and Economic Fluctuations	p. 108
The Case of Japan	p. 113
European Ways	p. 119
The French Monts-de-Pietes, 'My Aunt'	p. 119
The English Pawnbroker, 'My Uncle'	p. 125
The Arrival of Consumer Credit	p. 129
The French Way	p. 133
The Rest of Europe	p. 141
The European Dimension	p. 146
Are We Overindebted?	p. 151
The Economic Facts	p. 151
The American Recession	p. 153
The Case of Great Britain and France	p. 159
Overindebtedness as a Symptom	p. 162
Conclusion	p. 169
Appendix 1	p. 177
Appendix 2	p. 179
Appendix 3	p. 180
Index	p. 181
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