La licitud de linteres: evolucio historica dun tema de moral economica

Abstract

The problem of the consideration of any interest like usury and the ways to avoid the ecclesiastical condemnation were some of the main economic and moral topics of the traditional Europe. This paper shows the origins and foundations of the ecclesiastical doctrine on the usury, the appearance of the commercial and financial instruments that avoided the condemnation of the Church and the exceptions and new doctrines that considered warp the benefit coming from the loan.religion, financial markets, europe pre 1913, saving and capital investment