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498 INDEX<br />

capital<br />

as credit in Islam, 271-282<br />

investment capital, origins of, 19<br />

social capital, 380<br />

"symbolic capital,", 437n76<br />

capitale (capital), 445n29<br />

capitalism<br />

access to, 383<br />

British capitalism, 343-345, 351-352,<br />

449n87<br />

bullion in, 214<br />

changes to, ideas about, 373-375,<br />

383-384<br />

in China, 260, 434n42<br />

current practices, 375-383<br />

debt chain/debt trap and, 53, 155,<br />

347, 349<br />

defined, 260<br />

dehumanization in, 80, 194-195, 267,<br />

347, 354<br />

democracy and, 17<br />

financial crisis of 2008, 15-17<br />

financial innovations and, 15-17, 347-<br />

348, 376, 393n11<br />

flaws of, 387-390<br />

future of, 359-360, 377-378, 381-383<br />

gambling and, 357-358<br />

global effects of, 390<br />

growth, need for in, 346, 380<br />

historical views of, 351<br />

history's effect on, 3 19-320<br />

Marx on, 351, 359, 453n32<br />

in medieval Europe, 434n42<br />

merchant capitalism, 29Q-291,<br />

440n126<br />

militarization and, 346, 382<br />

neoliberalism, 376, 453n32<br />

origins of, 332<br />

overview, 345-355, 449nn88-104<br />

poverty and, 388-389<br />

prosperity and, 348-349<br />

protests against, 382, 452n35<br />

religious ideologies, influence on, 377-<br />

379, 453n28<br />

slave trade and, 349-352, 385<br />

supply-side economics, 377<br />

supporters of, 388<br />

trading and, 346-347<br />

utopian models for, 354-355<br />

vs. communism, 95-96, 404nn9-11<br />

wage labor and, 345, 349-353, 449n88<br />

war and, 346-347, 385<br />

See also free-market ideologies; interest<br />

"capitalist," defined, 358-359<br />

Carolingian empire<br />

derniers in, 292<br />

"imaginary money" in, 37, 383,<br />

495n28<br />

slavery in, 424n2<br />

Carreta, <strong>The</strong> (Traven), 307<br />

Carthage, 227-228, 229<br />

Case, Karle E., 22<br />

cashless economy, modern, 368<br />

Casimir, Margrave, 323-326, 336, 350,<br />

445nn36-37<br />

Castello, F rancesch, 338<br />

caste systems<br />

hierarchy and, 111, 432n19<br />

in India, 255-257, 432n12<br />

inequality in, 257<br />

vs. slavery, 86<br />

Cataline's conspiracy, 427n28<br />

Catholicism<br />

Augustinian traditions, 332, 430n69,<br />

443n168, 446n59<br />

on English festive life, 309<br />

on moneylending, 10, 283-285<br />

Positivism and, 69-70<br />

on societal interactions, 441n147<br />

See also Christianity<br />

cattle as currency, 59-60, 61, 128, 410n40<br />

Celtic societies. See Ireland<br />

central banks<br />

creation of, 364<br />

money, creation of and, 397n21<br />

state-supported central banks, 45,<br />

397n10<br />

in Sweden, 45<br />

U.S. dollars and, 363, 366-367, 451n12<br />

U.S. inflation and, 452n18<br />

See also Federal Reserve Bank<br />

Cephalus, 400n48<br />

ceremonial barter, 3Q-33, 35, 127,<br />

395n18, 395n21, 415n31<br />

Chapman, Anne, 395n16<br />

charisma (Tsav), 147<br />

charity<br />

Christian charity, 283-287<br />

reciprocity and, 109-111, 406n38

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