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Author Wood, Diana, 1940-

Title Medieval economic thought / Diana Wood
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
Series Cambridge medieval textbooks
Cambridge medieval textbooks.
Contents Introduction: problems, evidence, and background -- Private property versus communal rights: the conflict of two laws -- Wealth, beggary, and sufficiency -- What is money? -- Sovereign concerns: weights, measures, and coinage -- Mercantile system -- Just price and the just wage -- Nature of usury: the usurer as winner -- Theory of interest: the usurer as loser -- Conclusion
Summary "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."--Jacket
Analysis Economía Historia Hasta 1800
Aristóteles Aportaciones a la economía
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index
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Subject Aristotle -- Contributions in economics
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Subject Economics -- History -- To 1800.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
Economics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511039441
9780511039447