The Promise and Peril of Credit - What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a pers