![]() ![]() That all evil arise from the loaning of money at interest is also simplistic, as Marjorie Perloff has argued: ‘Piero and Bellini may not have “come by” Usura-they only “came by” treachery, fraud, murder, rape, poisonings, and all those other crimes committed by their great Renaissance patrons. Certainly, it is a hazy concept, spanning from greed to catch-all metonym of Evil, embedded in anti-Semitic language and tropes. But as late as July 1972, just four months before his death, Pound was still refining his definition of usury: ‘I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. ![]() Pound’s economic writings, for example, proclaim their desire to demystify the discipline’s lexicon in the 1930s, he sought to ‘express the fundamentals of economics so simply and clearly that even people of different economic schools and factions will be able to understand each other when they discuss them’ ( SP, 233). ![]()
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