Neither a borrower nor a lender be: An economic analysis of interest restrictions and usury laws

Journal of Law and Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-36

  Glaeser, Edward L ^a   Scheinkman, José ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 11544249687     PISSN: 00222186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/467383     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Aquinas, T. On Law, Morality and Politics. Edited by W. Baumgarth and R. Regan. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1988.
2. Aristotle. The Politics. Penguin Classic. London: Penguin, 1981.
3. Barrett, R. Compilation of Consumer Finance Laws and of Usury, Sales, Finance and Allied Laws. Washington, D.C.: National Consumer Finance Association, 1952.
4. Baumol, William J. "Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive." Journal of Political Economy 98 (1990): 893-922.
5. Brennan, G., and Buchanan, J. "Towards a Tax Constitution for Leviathan." Journal of Public Economics 8 (1977): 255-74.
6. DeRoover, R. Business, Banking and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Selected Studies of Raymond de Roover. Edited by Julius Kirshner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
7. Edwards, Chilperic, trans. The Hammurabic Code and the Sinaitic Legislation. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1971.
8. Ekelund, R.; Hebert, R.; and R. Tollison. "An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent-Seeking." Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 5 (1989): 307-31.
9. Finley, M. I. The Ancient Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
10. Fry, M. Money, Interest and Banking in Economic Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
11. Glaeser, E. L. "The Social Costs of Rent Control Revisited." Working paper. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996.
12. Glaeser, E. L., and Scheinkman, J. A. "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: An Economic Analysis of Interest Restrictions and Usury Laws." Working paper. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996.
13. Gopal, M. H. Mauryan Public Finance. London: George Allen, 1935.
14. Herman, Shael. Medieval Usury and the Commercialization of Feudal Bonds. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1993.
15. Homer, S. A History of Interest Rates. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963.
16. Jacobs, Jane. Systems of Survival. New York: Random House, 1992.
17. Johns, C. H. W. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters. New York: Scribner's, 1904.
18. LaTouche, R. The Birth of Western Economy: Economic Aspects of the Dark Ages. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961.
19. Le Goff, J. Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages. New York: Zone Books, 1988.
20. Levine, Aaron. Economics and Jewish Law: Halakhic Perspectives. Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav and Yeshiva University Press, 1987.
21. Maimonides, Moses. The Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Dover, 1956.
22. McLaughlin, T. P. "The Teaching of the Canonists on Usury." Medieval Studies 2 (1940): 1-24.
23. Nelson, Benjamin. The Idea of Usury: From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
24. Neusner, Jacob, trans. The Mishnah: A New Translation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
25. Neusner, Jacob, trans. The Talmud of Babylonia: An American Translation. Atlanta: Scholar's, 1990.
26. Neusner, Jacob. The Economics of the Mishnah. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993.
27. Noonan, John T. The Scholastic Analysis of Usury. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957.
28. Pearson, John. On the Theories of Usury. Cambridge, Mass.: Deighton, Bell, 1876.
29. Posner, R. "A Theory of Primitive Society with Special Reference to Law." Journal of Law and Economics 23 (1980): 1-53.
30. Posner, E. "Contract Law in the Welfare State: A Defense of the Unconscionability Doctrine, Usury Laws, and Related Limitations on the Freedom to Contract." Journal of Legal Studies 24, No. 2 (1995): 283-319.
31. Rangaswami, K. Aspects of Ancient Indian Economic Thought. Mylapore: Madras Law Journal Press, 1927.
32. Sombart, Werner. The Jews and Modern Capitalism. New York: Free Press, 1951.
33. Stiglitz, J., and Weiss, A. "Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information." American Economic Review 71, No. 3 (1981): 393-410.
34. Tawney, R. H. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1926.
35. Trever, Albert. Greek Economic Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916.
36. U.S. Bureau of the Census. County and City Data Books. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, various years.
37. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. State Personal Income: 1929-1987: Estimates and a Statement of Sources and Methods. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.
38. Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Harper Collins, 1930.
39. World Almanac. New York: Press Publishing Co., 1920-50.