| | | | PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMICS, N 1 (29), 2009 | | | | ECONOMICS AND RELIGION | | | Raskov D. E.
Assistant professor, Chair of Economic Theory, Department of Economics, St.Petersburg State University; Candidate of Science (Economics)
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| | | The author focuses on the attitude to interest taking in the economic ethics of old believers, discusses the contradiction between interest-baring loan in the Orthodox patristic tradition and the economic practice of merchants and trustees of old believer communes. In spite of the use of interest-baring loan in the practice of old believer merchants, old believers generally preserved the Christian spirit of interest prohibition. The article is based on a detailed treatment of a number of historical documents and texts | | Key words: economy and religion, economic ethics, interest, polarity of the economical and the spiritual, commune, merchant class | |
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