Historical views on money lenders via: literature, religion, and politics

Usury, Christianity and the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages

Aristotle and Usury

Aquinas, Usury, Reason, and Economics

Usury and Interest and the Catholic church

Punishing Usury under Catholic & Reformationist dogma

Great Britain, Interest, colonization, and Bacon

Adam Smith, Regulation, Interest, and Free Markets

Capitalism in the 18th century; Kant & Hegel’s altruistic philosophy

Marx, Keynes and modern ‘capitalism’

Objectivism and a philosophical revolution for usury

Q: What role does Justice have in the vilification of money-lenders?

Q: Why was the demand for money-lending so high?

Q: Anti-Semitism and money-lending

Q: Why are some Libertarians against usury?

Q: Where did the Jews get the money to lend?

Q: What is the moral and legal legitimacy of giving and collecting loans?

Q: Is there a correlation between usury and bankruptcy laws?

Q: What about lenders who lend while anticipating a default?

Q: Why have the attacks on money lenders not gone away?