The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought (Routledge History of Economic Thought)

✍ Scribed by Louis Baeck

• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
THE AUTHOR......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 10
MEDITERRANEAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND ATLANTIC ECONOMICS......Page 12
THE ROOTS OF THE TRADITION......Page 17
WHAT IS IN THE TERM ‘TRADITION’......Page 18
THE REVIVAL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN TRADITION......Page 21
THE READING OF ANCIENT TEXTS......Page 25
ECONOMIC HUMANISM: A NEW THEME......Page 28
THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION......Page 31
THE MESOPOTAMIAN LEGAL TRADITION......Page 35
PHARAONIC EGYPT......Page 37
THE BIBLICAL TRADITION......Page 42
CONCLUSION......Page 51
THE EMERGENCE OF RATIONALISM AND SECULARISM......Page 53
The intellectual scene......Page 57
The pan-Hellenic platform of Isocrates......Page 58
Xenophon’s models of management......Page 61
The man and the philosopher......Page 72
The material base of society21......Page 77
The moral and social crisis of the opulent state......Page 78
Production and trade......Page 79
Money......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 82
The man and the scientist......Page 83
The discourse on politics......Page 87
The discourse on justice......Page 94
Justice in exchange......Page 98
THE HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY OF ARISTOTLE’S ANALYSIS......Page 102
ISLAM AS A FORCE IN HISTORY......Page 105
THE SOURCES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION......Page 108
Zaid Ibn Ali......Page 110
Tadbir al-madina......Page 111
Ibn Taymiyyah......Page 112
Ibn al-Qayyim......Page 114
Al-Maqrizi......Page 115
THE PERSIAN TRADITION......Page 116
KALAM AND FALSAFA......Page 118
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali......Page 119
Ibn Rushd......Page 121
THE GLOBAL VISION OF IBN KHALDUN......Page 123
The translation centres......Page 128
The transmission belts: Catalonia and Languedoc......Page 129
THE REVIVAL OF THE ISLAMIC TRADITION......Page 130
The Islamic branch......Page 132
THE WEBER THESIS REVISITED......Page 134
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 136
THE CISTERCIANS AND THE RURAL ECONOMY......Page 137
THE DEVELOPMENT TRAP OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY......Page 138
AN INNOVATIVE CORPORATE CULTURE AND STRUCTURE......Page 140
THE TRANSITION TO THE LATE MIDDLE AGES......Page 143
THE LATE BLOOMING OF THE LATIN WEST......Page 145
THE ROMAN LEGISTS......Page 149
THE TEACHING OF THE CANONISTS......Page 154
THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY......Page 161
ALBERTUS MAGNUS AND THOMAS AQUINAS......Page 162
THE LANGUEDOCIAN FRANCISCAN P.J.OLIVI......Page 170
MONEY AND THE ABUSE OF POWER......Page 176
THE TURN TOWARDS MODERN TIMES......Page 181
THE CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC SETTING......Page 183
The dawning of the quantity theory......Page 187
The rejuvenation of scholastic economics......Page 189
Perspectives and accents of study......Page 190
Monetary analysis......Page 191
A NEW PERCEPTION OF INFLATION......Page 192
Martin de Azpilcueta......Page 193
Tomás de Mercado......Page 195
PURCHASING-POWER PARITY......Page 196
Doctrinal change: from public virtue to national wealth......Page 198
The ideology of the arbitristas......Page 199
The pioneer: Luis Ortiz......Page 201
The crisis syndrome of the ‘arbitristas’......Page 203
PORTUGUESE ‘ALVITRISMO’......Page 208
Review......Page 210
The intellectual contribution of Salamanca......Page 212
Contrast with the imperialism thesis......Page 213
THE HISTORICAL UNFOLDING OF THEORIES AND THEIR SOURCES......Page 214
NOTES......Page 217
CHAPTER I......Page 226
CHAPTER II......Page 227
CHAPTER III......Page 228
CHAPTER IV......Page 231
CHAPTER V......Page 234
CHAPTER VI......Page 235
CHAPTER VII......Page 237
INDEX......Page 241