Payday Loan | Christian Right and Usury in Theory and Practice (Part 2)

This is the conclusion of “Payday Loan | Christian Right and Usury in Theory and Practice.”
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Yet as Peterson and Graves see it, there is some divergence. Some Old Testament passages appear to state that Hebrews were permitted to make interest-bearing payday loans to non-Jews, [...]

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Jeremy Bentham
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by
Steven Tarlow

Payday Loan | Christian Right and Usury in Theory and Practice

In the academic study “Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation,” Christopher Peterson of the University of Utah and Steven Graves of California State Northridge show via collected empirical data that there’s something quite surprising about the distribution [...]

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Of Usury, from Brants Stultifera Navis
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 by
Steven Tarlow