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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interest scorned as benefiting from another's hardship and profit-making as divisive. So how did interest rates, monetary gains, and return on investment come to rule our modern world? Though most economic histories tell this story as one of overcoming superstition in favour of social progress, Losing Interest explains how the concept of 'interest' had to be continuously rehabilitated over six centuries of European colonial expansion, transforming profit from a mortal sin into a business model. From early Medici innovations in banking to the development of insurance schemes in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, our current economic system was built on legal and financial tools that abstract capital from the ongoing reality of deception, theft, and mass murder at its core. With wit and lyricism, anthropologist Scott W. Schwartz makes a clear, common sense appeal for our shared wellbeing against capitalism's nonsensical demand for widespread suffering to produce the mounting wealth of the few.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interest scorned as benefiting from another's hardship and profit-making as divisive. So how did interest rates, monetary gains, and return on investment come to rule our modern world? Though most economic histories tell this story as one of overcoming superstition in favour of social progress, Losing Interest explains how the concept of 'interest' had to be continuously rehabilitated over six centuries of European colonial expansion, transforming profit from a mortal sin into a business model. From early Medici innovations in banking to the development of insurance schemes in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, our current economic system was built on legal and financial tools that abstract capital from the ongoing reality of deception, theft, and mass murder at its core. With wit and lyricism, anthropologist Scott W. Schwartz makes a clear, common sense appeal for our shared wellbeing against capitalism's nonsensical demand for widespread suffering to produce the mounting wealth of the few.…

Condición: very_good. This book is in Very Good condition. The cover and pages have minor shelf wear. Binding is tight and pages are intact.

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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Losing Interest: The Antisocial History of Economic Growth. Book.

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interest scorned as benefiting from another's hardship and profit-making as divisive. So how did interest rates, monetary gains, and return on investment come to rule our modern world? Though most economic histories tell this story as one of overcoming superstition in favour of social progress, Losing Interest explains how the concept of 'interest' had to be continuously rehabilitated over six centuries of European colonial expansion, transforming profit from a mortal sin into a business model. From early Medici innovations in banking to the development of insurance schemes in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, our current economic system was built on legal and financial tools that abstract capital from the ongoing reality of deception, theft, and mass murder at its core. With wit and lyricism, anthropologist Scott W. Schwartz makes a clear, common sense appeal for our shared wellbeing against capitalism's nonsensical demand for widespread suffering to produce the mounting wealth of the few. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Book is in great overall condition. No writing or major blemishes. Minor wear.; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright except for pen margin notes and marks, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With previous owner's name, otherwise a fine, as new hardcover first edition copy, blue faux leather binding with white lettering on the cover and spine, no DJ.

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 208 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.