Saints and sinners -- Embracing Shylock -- Protestants, war, and capitalism -- The great experiment -- The new debt revolution -- Something old, something new -- Islam, interest, and microlending -- The consumer debt revolution -- Early interest rate tables and calculations

Introduction : providing a different narrative: the 2008 financial crisis and the UK financial market / Abdul Karim Aldohni -- Law, creditors and crises : the untold story of debt / TT Arvind -- Peer-to-peer lending and financial innovation in the UK / David Bholat and Ulrich Atz -- High cost...

Analytical dialectics, rationality, and trust -- Law as credibility-basic traits -- The Eurozone : accession, exit, and expulsion-revisited -- The ECB and European monetary policy -- The European framework of financial regulation and supervision : towards a banking union -- The stability and...