Author: Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016489X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme
Author: Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016489X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The de Moneta of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents
Author: OresmeThe De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme, and English Mint Documents
Author: Nicole OresmeThe De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme, and English Mint Documents
Author: Nicole OresmePublisher: London, Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The "De Moneta" of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents
Author: Nicole OresmeEthics of Money Production
Author: Jörg Guido HülsmannPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Economic Laws and Economic History
Author: Charles P. KindlebergerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599757
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this volume, Charles Kindleberger makes a powerful case against the idea that any one model could be used to unlock the basic secret of economic history. It is essentially an exercise in methodology, addressed to economists and economic historians alike. He argues that too many economists discover a relationship or a uniformity in economic behaviour, develop a model, and use it to explain more than it is capable of, including, on occasion, all economic behaviour. These lectures discuss four 'laws' in economics to show how uniformities can illuminate economic history in particular aspects. They illustrate the view that the economist or economic historian seeking to test analysis against historical data should have a variety of different models, and not just one. The implication is that however scientific and technical the tools, choosing them carefully to fit particular circumstances is itself an art.
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century
Author: Joel KayePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought.
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing
Author: Lianna FarberPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501721445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic.By addressing texts in which each element of trade is discussed directly, Farber demonstrates that this straightforward picture is falsely reassuring. In fact, these ideas were deeply contested. In the end, Farber reveals, writing about trade was not descriptive but argumentative, analyzing the act in an attempt to justify it. Such texts reveal deep intellectual uncertainties about the market society they advocated. An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing benefits from Farber's close reading of literary sources, among them the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer and Robert Henryson; theological sources, including the writing of Thomas Aquinas and Richard of Middleton; and legal sources such as the canon law on marriage formation. A provocative contribution to our understanding of medieval life and thought, this book implies a need to reconsider the genealogy of economics as a way of thinking about the world.
Medieval Economic Thought
Author: Diana WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry, Parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls. It raises a number of questions based on the Aristotelian idea of the mean, the balance and harmony underlying justice, as applied by medieval thinkers to the changing economy. How could private ownership of property be reconciled with God's gift of the earth to all in common? How could charity balance resources between rich and poor? What was money? What were the just price and the just wage? How was a balance to be achieved between lender and borrower and how did the idea of usury change to reflect this? The answers emerge from a wide variety of ecclesiastical and secular sources.