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Book Review: John N. Mack, Bucking The Railroads On The Kansas Frontier: The Struggle Over Land Claims By Homesteading Civil War Veterans, 1867-1876, Sean M. Kammer Dec 2012

Book Review: John N. Mack, Bucking The Railroads On The Kansas Frontier: The Struggle Over Land Claims By Homesteading Civil War Veterans, 1867-1876, Sean M. Kammer

Sean Kammer

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The Church And The Usurers: Unprofitable Lending For The Modern Economy, Brian M. Mccall Dec 2012

The Church And The Usurers: Unprofitable Lending For The Modern Economy, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

Professor McCall explains in a scholarly yet accessible manner the core principles of the usury doctrine. Tracing its history from Biblical texts, through Aristotelian philosophy and Roman law, to the great scholastic synthesis, Professor McCall separates the unchanging principles from the changes in their applications to new economic realities. With debt, personal, business and government spiraling out of control and massive insolvencies of ancient nations like Greece, contemporary economic theory has offered little in response. Professor McCall contributes the wisdom of the centuries in a concise and readable study.

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