Interest Free Economy
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Interest Free Economy may refer to:
- Zero interest-rate policy, a macroeconomic concept describing conditions with a low nominal interest rate.
- Freiwirtschaft, an economic system proposed by Silvio Gesell, which would theoretically lead to an interest-free economy.
- Islamic banking and finance, Islam prohibits usury.
- Christian finance, Christianity prohibits usury.
- Loans and interest in Judaism, the Torah and Talmud encourage lending money without interest.
- Vix pervenit, an encyclical, promulgated by Pope Benedict XIV on November 1, 1745, which condemned the practice of charging interest on loans as usury.