Book

Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of Credit and Debt

Published: 2010
Genre: Nonfiction
Pages: 272
URL: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7869592-popes-and-bankers?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_56

Reading measures

Suggested reading age: ages 17–18
Ambleside year: Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20

An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.

For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff—in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unfurls a fascinating story of credit and debt, usury and “the sordid love of gain.”