The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought

ISBN-13: 9780415756235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

Louis Baeck

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Mediterranean Tradition; Chapter 2 The Near Eastern Precursors; Chapter 3 The Contribution of the Greek Essayists and Philosophers; Chapter 4 The Economic thought of Classical Islam and its Revival; Chapter 5 The Economic Impact of the Cistercian Order; Chapter 6 Medieval Thought in the Latin West; Chapter 7 Iberian Monetarism and Development Theories of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries;

O autorze

Louis Baeck