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368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780241569160
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Description
With clarity and precision, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law's ill-fated Mississippi scheme to the global credit booms of the...
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368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780241569160
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Description
With clarity and precision, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law's ill-fated Mississippi scheme to the global credit booms of the...