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INDEX 517<br />

societal hierarchies in, 142-143<br />

"village-wives," 141-142, 410n33<br />

women's social role and value, 138-<br />

144, 410n29, 410n34, 410nn25-26,<br />

413n97<br />

Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens<br />

(Millett), 419n78<br />

"leopard-skin chiefs," 133<br />

Lerner, Gerda, 184<br />

Levi, Sylvain, 399n34<br />

Leviathan (Hobbes), 331<br />

Levi-Strauss, Claude, 91, 394n9, 402n8,<br />

410n22<br />

Leviticus, views on debt in, 82, 402n15,<br />

403n20, 419n77<br />

Levy- Bruhl, Lucien, 93<br />

lex Petronia, 422n108<br />

Lexus and the Olive Tree, <strong>The</strong> (Friedman/Martin),<br />

452n26<br />

Liang dynasty, 261<br />

libertus (free), 203<br />

liberty. See freedom, concept of<br />

life, as endless debt, 263<br />

life-debts, 133-136<br />

blood debts, 137-144, 145, 420n84<br />

li min (public profit), 429n58<br />

li (profit), 239, 429n55<br />

livlihood, right to, 328, 446n44<br />

livres, French, 48, 395n28, 397n12<br />

Livy, (Titus Livius), 230, 403n27, 422n109<br />

Llewellyn-Jones, LLoyd, 418n64<br />

loans<br />

in China, 269, 435nn48-53<br />

commercial loans, 253-254, 43 1-<br />

432n5<br />

compulsory loans, 338-339<br />

eranos loans, 403-404n30<br />

irresponsible loans and debt crisis,<br />

15-17, 393nll<br />

Third World debt crisis and, 2-3<br />

vs. gifts, 420n84<br />

vs. tribute systems, 6, 371-372, 384<br />

See also credit systems; moneylending/<br />

money lenders<br />

loans, interest-bearing<br />

effect on families, 328<br />

in Europe, 440n130<br />

in Greece, 191-192, 419nn75nn77,<br />

420n81<br />

Hinduism and, 11-12<br />

in India, 256, 432n15<br />

invention of, 384<br />

in Middle East, 420n81<br />

origins of, 64, 420n81<br />

in Persia, 400n51, 420n85<br />

in Sumer, 216<br />

in Vedic India, 62-63, 400n47<br />

wage labor and, 368<br />

loan sharks/loan-sharking, 10, 28, 5 1,<br />

195, 259, 352, 354, 376, 389<br />

lobbying policies, U.S., 376<br />

Locke, John, 24, 45, 210, 340-341, 341,<br />

401n2<br />

Loizos, Peter, 407n57<br />

Lombard, Maurice, 277<br />

Lombards family, 289, 440n121<br />

London. See England<br />

lost income, 290, 440n 125<br />

"love," concept of, 385, 386, 446n51<br />

lucrum cessans (lost income), 440n125<br />

Luther, Martin, 321-322, 324, 331,<br />

445n26<br />

Lydia, kingdom of, 212, 224-225, 244<br />

Lydian coins, 224, 227, 426n5<br />

M<br />

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 331-332, 446n58<br />

MacKay, Charles, 347-348<br />

MacPherson, C.B., 423n122, 445n40<br />

Madagascar<br />

bargaining customs in, 104<br />

barter systems in, 28<br />

French invasion of, 5, 50<br />

malaria outbreak in, 4<br />

taxes imposed on by France, 5-6, so-<br />

51, 393n1<br />

Magadha empire, 232-233, 235, 43 1n3<br />

magical language, 343<br />

Mahavira, 232<br />

Mahayana doctrine, 241, 265-266, 266,<br />

268, 433-434n35<br />

Mahyamaka school, 433-434n35<br />

Making of the New World Slavery<br />

(Blackburn), 224n3<br />

Malagasy people. See Madagascar<br />

Malamoud, Charles, 399n32, 407n59<br />

Malinowski, Bronislaw K., 404n3<br />

Mamluks, 209, 274, 294<br />

manas (man), 76<br />

Manuel, Dom, 406n34

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