Path of the usury and the profit in the Judaism

Authors

  • Mario Matus G. Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This paper traces the evolution of attitudes towards borrowing money with interest within the Jewish world, inserted into a succession of pronouncements of many civilizations of the ancient world and before the burst medieval Christianity with extreme sentencing position. This review reveals the high degree of dynamism and fluctuating belief systems to the economic practice and emphasizes how the legal system was prepared mosaic increasingly sophisticated reasoning to it, based on a case-type case.

Keywords:

Usury, loans, Judaism.

Author Biography

Mario Matus G., Universidad de Chile