This survey integrates the theme of economic thinking into the history of ethics, culture and religion. Its coverage ranges from Antiquity and the biblical world to the 18th century.
Contents:
The economic and jurisprudential ideas of the Ancient Greeks - our heritage from Hellenistic thought, S. Todd Lowry; an economic look at the Old Testament, Dov Paris; Hellenistic economic thought, Christos P. Baloglou; social justice - the New Testament perspective, Thomas O. Nitsch; economic thought among the early Byzantine Church fathers, A.D. Karayannis; Talmud and Talmudic tradition - a socio-economic perspective, Roman A. Ohrenstein; Roman thought on economics and justice, Gloria Vivenza; ""For I was hungry and you fed me"" - social justice and economic thought in the Latin patristic and medieval Christian traditions, Abigail Firey; monetary and market consciousness in 13th- and 14th-century Europe, Joel Kaye; economic thought in the last Byzantine period, Christos P. Baloglou; the medieval schoolmen (1200-1400), Odd Langholm; later scholastics - Spanish economic thought in the 16th and 17th centuries, Francisco Gomez Camacho; Latin American scholastics, Oreste Popescu.