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'''Usury''' (from the [[W:Medieval Latin|Medieval Latin]] ''usuria'', "interest" or "excessive interest"<!--OED-->, from [[W:Latin|Latin]] ''usura'' "interest") was defined originally as charging a fee for the use of money. This usually meant [[W:interest|interest]] on [[W:loan|loan]]s, although charging a fee for changing money (as at a [[W:bureau de change|bureau de change]]) is included in the original meaning. After moderate-interest loans were made more easily available usury became an accepted part of the business world in the [[W:early modern age|early modern age]]. Today, the word has come to refer to the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest. | '''Usury''' (from the [[W:Medieval Latin|Medieval Latin]] ''usuria'', "interest" or "excessive interest"<!--OED-->, from [[W:Latin|Latin]] ''usura'' "interest") was defined originally as charging a fee for the use of money. This usually meant [[W:interest|interest]] on [[W:loan|loan]]s, although charging a fee for changing money (as at a [[W:bureau de change|bureau de change]]) is included in the original meaning. After moderate-interest loans were made more easily available usury became an accepted part of the business world in the [[W:early modern age|early modern age]]. Today, the word has come to refer to the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest. | ||
| − | ==See also== | + | == Quotes == |
| + | When once the usurer has obtained complete control of monetary creation, the interest mechanism has achieved its purpose, and could the be given up. When the usurer lent the original gold coinage, he created a debt claim and appropriated the interest. When, however, he began to create ''and'' lend money, he appropriated both interest and capital. Thus the usurer's (i.e. banker's) wealth and power finally derive from this credit creation, wherein, as Major Douglass puts it, "power comes not from charging interest but in creating new claims and appropriating them." | ||
| + | :''- Human Ecology p127'' | ||
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| + | == Books == | ||
| + | *[[Human Ecology]] | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
| + | *[[Currency]] | ||
*[[W:Usury]] | *[[W:Usury]] | ||
*http://www.theproblemwithinterest.com/index.html | *http://www.theproblemwithinterest.com/index.html | ||
*[[w:The Money Masters|The Money Masters]] | *[[w:The Money Masters|The Money Masters]] | ||
Revision as of 03:15, 17 January 2008
Usury (from the Medieval Latin usuria, "interest" or "excessive interest", from Latin usura "interest") was defined originally as charging a fee for the use of money. This usually meant interest on loans, although charging a fee for changing money (as at a bureau de change) is included in the original meaning. After moderate-interest loans were made more easily available usury became an accepted part of the business world in the early modern age. Today, the word has come to refer to the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest.
Quotes
When once the usurer has obtained complete control of monetary creation, the interest mechanism has achieved its purpose, and could the be given up. When the usurer lent the original gold coinage, he created a debt claim and appropriated the interest. When, however, he began to create and lend money, he appropriated both interest and capital. Thus the usurer's (i.e. banker's) wealth and power finally derive from this credit creation, wherein, as Major Douglass puts it, "power comes not from charging interest but in creating new claims and appropriating them."
- - Human Ecology p127
