Capital confidence : updating Harold Berman’s views on mercantile law and belief systems
- "Every time a society finds itself in crisis it instinctively turns its eyes towards its origins and looks there for a sign." With this citation from Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Prize winner in literature, Berman concluded his Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition in 1983. There is a sense in which, thirty years later, this quote remains utterly appropriate, certainly at the beginning of a re-assessment of Berman’s thoughts on the particular topic of the religious origins of modern commercial and financial institutions. Five years on from the start of the financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008, it is worthwhile recalling, perhaps, that the sign perceived by Berman in the history of mercantile law was a sign that pointed towards the fundamental interconnectedness of belief systems and business. Berman was profoundly convinced of the vital, historical link between religion, trust, and economic prosperity. ...
Author: | Wim DecockORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-527819 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.12946/rg21/180-185 |
ISSN: | 2195-9617 |
ISSN: | 1619-4993 |
Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Rechtsgeschichte = Legal History |
Publisher: | Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
Contributor(s): | Thomas Duve |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2013 |
Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/01/20 |
Volume: | 21 |
Page Number: | 7 |
First Page: | 180 |
Last Page: | 185 |
Note: | Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 459338145 |
Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / LOEWE-Schwerpunkt Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |