The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought

Louis Baeck

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415756235
• eBook ISBN: 9781134871469
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought surveys the legacy of thinking on economic affairs from the countries in the Mediterraean basin over four millenia. It considers the economic content of the scriptures of the Mesopotamian civilisations, Pharaonic Egypt and the Biblical peoples and the contributions of the Greeks and Romans, and their influence on Islamic civilisation and on the Medieval scholastics. The flowering of the school of Salamanca as recently as the seventeenth century demonstrates how long-lived the tradition was, and throughout Baeck demonstrates how these ideas continue to survive and resurface, citing the renewed interest in the ethical dimension of economics, the revival of interest in the history of Islamic thought, and the re-emergence of Slavophile doctrines in contemporary Russian.

INDEX

Abellan, J.L. 182

Abu Hanifa, founding legal school 100

Abu Shafi’i, founding legal school 100

Accursius 146–7;

metallist position 147, 170

acquisition of goods, in Aristotle 78

‘added value’ doctrine, in canon law 149

Admonition of Ipuwer 28

Afzal-ur-Rahman 123

agriculture:

in Huguccio 149;

in Leruela 199,

see also estate management

al-Biruni, mirror literature 107

al-Dimashqi, price theory 107–8

Al-e Ahmad 122

al-Farabi, political philosophy 108–9

al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid, social and economic teachings 109–11

al-Maqrizi, monetary theory 105–7, 114

Albertus Magnus 155, 156;

exchange 157–8;

justice 157;

money 158–9, 205

Alexander of Alexandria 169

Alhaji, Ajijola 123

allage (barter) 78–9

alvitrismo 180, 201–44i, 207

Amos 29, 34;

justice 35–6

Amzalak, M. 202

Andrade, Miguel Leitao de 202

Andrea d’Isernia 144, 170

Anes, Gonzalo 200

Appleby, J. 205

Aquinas, Thomas 155, 156, 159–60, 162–3;

exchange 161;

profit 161–2

arbitristas 5, 180, 191–3, 194–5, 208;

crisis syndrome 196–201;

as example of thematization 8;

ideology 193–4;

quantity theory 181–2;

rediscovery 209–10;

strategy 206–7, see also Ortiz, Luis

Aristotle 4, 67, 72–6;

in Albertus Magnus 156–9;

in Aquinas 160–3;

in Buridan 171;

discourse on justice 84–8;

discourse on politics 76–84;

influence 92–4, 154;

justice in exchange 88–91, 181;

in Oresme 172–4;

in Salamanca School 178

Arkoun, M. 124

Arrow, J. 94

Assmann, A. 8

Assmann, J. 8, 27

Athens 43–4;

intellectual scene 46–7

atlantization of the modern world 5,...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SERIES
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• The author
• Preface
• I THE MEDITERRANEAN TRADITION
• II THE NEAR EASTERN PRECURSORS
• III THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE GREEK ESSAYISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS
• IV THE ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF CLASSICAL ISLAM AND ITS REVIVAL
• V THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER
• VI MEDIEVAL THOUGHT IN THE LATIN WEST
• VII IBERIAN MONETARISM AND DEVELOPMENT THEORIES OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index