1st Edition
A History of Interest and Debt Ancient Civilizations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
About the Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction to Interest and Debt
(Murat Ustaoğlu, Halil Şimşek and Servet Bayındır)
Chapter 2: Dynamics of Social Life in Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations as Historical Precursors of Interest/riba within the Context of Religion, Politics and Economics
(Murat Ustaoğlu and Betül Mutlugün)
Chapter 3: Interest-bearing Debt in Ancient Civilizations: Sumerian Era
(Muhammet Sait Bozik and Selim Demez)
Chapter 4: The Merchant Societies and Usury: Assyrians and Babylonians
(Muhammet Sait Bozik and Murat Ustaoğlu)
Chapter 5: Social Costs of Interest-bearing Debt in Ancient Greece
(Muhammet Sait Bozik and Ferda Güvenilir)
Chapter 6: Debt and Politics in Ancient Roman
(Muhammet Sait Bozik, Halil Tunalı and Murat Ustaoğlu)
Chapter 7: Interest-bearing Debt in Ancient Egypt
(Murat İstekli and Murat Ustaoğlu)
Chapter 8: Interest and Debt in Ancient China
(Muhammet Sait Bozik and Murat Ustaoğlu)
Chapter 9: Dynamics of Interest-bearing Debt in Hinduism
(Ferda Güvenilir and Ahmet İncekara)
Chapter 10: Interest and Debt in Buddhist Economic Doctrine
(Esra Türkoz, Mehmet Akyol and Murat Ustaoğlu)
Chapter 11: Interest and Debt in Ancient Era
(Murat Ustaoğlu and Abdüsselam Sağın)
Index
Biography
Murat Ustaoğlu is an associate professor of economics at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, and currently a visiting scholar at the City University of New York, USA.
Ahmet İncekara is a professor of economics at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
