Moral Economy - Fontaine, Laurence (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe, focusing on lending practices and the values that structured them. Laurence Fontaine creates a dialogue between past and present, contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit.