Vorwort -- Karl Marx’ Religionskritik: Religion als Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur und Opium der Volks -- War Karl Marx ein politischer Denker? -- Hat nur Marx einen Bart oder auch seine Philosophie? -- Karl Marx’/Friedrich Engels’ Kritik am dialogischen Kommunismus Ludwig...

1. Introduction -- 2. Crisis of fantasy prosperity based on debt -- 3. Usury prohibition : an ancient principle of financial dealings -- 4. The scholastic theory of usury and its ultimate marginalization -- 5. Abuse of money power -- 6. Debt money and institutionalization of usury -- 7. The myth...

The financial crisis of 2007–2008 had its origins in the manner by which complex financial instruments allowed qualitative phenomena to become a tradable commodity. This process is part of a profound tendency in modern economic life to convert the qualitative, specific and non-commensurable...