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Bankruptcy for the Etymologist
In fifteenth century Venice, Jewish money lenders set out bancos or benches of business. "When a money lender was found to be cheating he was publicly disgraced and put out of business by having his bench broken, banco ruptus."
From Swetz's Capitalism and Arithmetic.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on February 12, 2004 at 08:05 AM in History | Permalink
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