Contents: Preface -- 1. Defining the issues in religion and finance -- 2. The three Abrahamic religions -- 3. Attitudes of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to usury -- 4. Social policy in the Abrahamic religions -- 5. Economic framework of the Abrahamic religions -- 6. What the Abrahamic...

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