Sourcebook in Late-Scholastic Monetary Theory: The Contributions of Martin de Azpilcueta, Luis de Molina, and Juan de Mariana (Studies in Ethics and Economics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739117505 ISBN 13: 9780739117507

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2007

Synopsis

The Sourcebook is a thematically unified collection of seminal texts in the history of economics on the topic of money and exchange relations (cambium)_its nature, purpose, value, and relationship to justice and morality in financial transactions_within the tradition of latescholastic commercial ethics.

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Review:

Scholars are indebted to Stephen Grabill for rescuing the works of these important Late Scholastics from undeserved obscurity. This collection is valuable not only because it fills a crucial gap in our understanding of the history of economic thought, but also because these are works of great insight in and of themselves.--Thomas Woods, author of The Church and the Market

This collection of texts in monetary theory will of course be extremely valuable to scholars of the history of economic thought, who will want to explore the place of these late-scholastic Spaniards in the emergence of modern economics. But this collection should also attract readers who are looking for interesting alternatives to the sterile positivism that constrains and diminishes so much of present-day economic thought. They will surely find such alternatives here, among writers who knew that what we believe about economics is ultimately a reflection of what we believe about human beings, and about the nature of the world they inhabit.--Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma

About the Author:

Stephen J. Grabill is research scholar in theology at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He is founding editor of Journal of Markets & Morality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0739117505
• ISBN 13: 9780739117507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Grabill Stephen J.