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Abstract for “The quest for stability: early public banking in the Mediterranean, 14th to 16th c.”

by Jocopo Sartori ________________________________________________________________________________ Early public banks have been deemed by...

Confessions of a Constitutionalist

Dafydd Elis-Thomas The constitution of the United Kingdom holds no mysteries as far as I am concerned, though most of its commentators...

Why Utopias Go Wrong

Harry Mount, editor of the Oldie Magazine Thomas More invented the word ‘utopia’ from the Greek ‘ou’—‘not’—and ‘topos’—‘place’; i.e....

Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism

Benedikt Koehler Anyone who sells a house and makes a profit wants to know what to do with the money they make. If they live in a city...