The Political Economy and Ethics of Debt Financing : The Brutality of the Charging of Interest on Loans (Hardcover)

1. The growing contemporary challenge of indebtedness?2. The morality of the charging of interest on loans: the Ancient and Mediaeval moral philosophical debate?3. Transition of the moral debate to political economy: from Bacon to the contemporary discussions of interest and usury?4. A critical philosophico-economic appraisal of the contemporary consensus on money-lending at interest?5. Alternatives to interest-based financing of business ventures?6. And what about lending to consumer borrowers??7. Alternatives to interest-based government borrowing and the implications for sustainability of government debt?8. The impact of the charging of interest on the distribution of wealth?9. A Call to Action in face of the Massive Inertia of Financial Sector Vested Interests?Index