Something for Nothing?
An Explanation and Defence of the Scholastic Position on Usury
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- Hardcover
148 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2024
Summary
Usury is a topic with a long and complex history. While it is typically understood today as the practice of charging excessive interest, this is a far cry from the meaning given to it by ancient and medieval authors, who considered the charging of any interest on a mutuum (a loan of such things as are estimated by weight, number, or measure) to be usury. Finding a thorough, coherent, and believable explanation for so monumental a difference in outlook has been nearly impossi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781965303023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1965303021 |
| Author: | David Hunt |
| Publisher: | OS Justi Press |
| Imprint: | OS Justi Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 148 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 327g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | OS Justi Studies in Catholic Tradition |
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Critics Review
“There are few books of which one can say that they are required reading for both theologians and economists, but Something for Nothing? is surely one of them.”-Fr. Thomas Crean, OP, co-author of Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy
“The chief strength of this work is the author’s defense of the full rigor of the illicitness of usury, i.e., not ‘too high a rate of interest’ but any interest based simply on the fact of a loan contract.” -Thomas Storck, author of An Economics of Justice and Charity: Catholic Social Teaching, Its Development and Contemporary Relevance
“Treatments of usury are frequently burdened with garbled definitions and serious misunderstandings. David Hunt has done us a great service by providing a brilliant and lucid treatment of a practice that was branded sinful by the Council of Vienne and, in fact, can be known to be evil by the light of natural reason.” -Alan Fimister, author of The Iron Sceptre of the Son of Man: Romanitas as a Note of the Church
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