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The Lender's Curse: A New Look at the Origin and Persistence of Interest Bans in Islam and Christianity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

JARED RUBIN
JARED RUBIN*
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, California State University, Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92834. E-mail: jrubin@ fullerton.edu.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 575 - 579
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