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The History of Credit & Debt
URL: http://myvesta.org/history/

Description:
This essay provides "a retrospective on money and the development of credit. You will be taken on a 9,000-year journey to see how we arrived at our present-day financial times." Topics include development of money and currency, early regulations on interest and credit (such as from Hammurabi's code), debtors' prison, credit cards, and bankruptcy. From the Myvesta Foundation, a consumer finance assistance service.

LII Topics: Credit, Money

Author:
Rhode, Steve

Publisher:
The Myvesta Foundation

LII Database Information:
Record 28179 created by Maria Brandt on 03/30/2009
Last modification on 04/20/2009
Published: 04/23/2009  
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28179

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