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Back to EpisodesFrancesca Trivellato, “The Promise and Peril of Credit” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Published 6 years, 11 months ago
Description
In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange had been invented by Jews. In The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about...