Pre-Classical Economic Thought

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • S. Todd Lowry

   Pages 1-6

3. The Greek Heritage in Economic Thought

   • S. Todd Lowry

   Pages 7-30

4. The Old Art of Political Economy

   • William F. Campbell

   Pages 31-42

5. Biblical and Early Judeo-Christian Thought: Genesis to Augustine

   • Barry Gordon

   Pages 43-67

6. Some Socioeconomic Aspects of Judaic Thought

   • Roman A. Ohrenstein

   Pages 68-76

7. Islamic Economic Thought

   • M. Yassine Essid

   Pages 77-102

8. Continuity and Change in Islamic Economic Thought

   • Timur Kuran

   Pages 103-113

9. Scholastic Economics

   • Odd Langholm

   Pages 115-135

10. Scholastic Economics

    • Stephen T. Worland

    Pages 136-146

11. The Development of Mercantilist Economic Thought

    • Richard C. Wiles

    Pages 147-173

12. The Language of Mercantilism

    • Lars Magnusson

    Pages 174-184

13. In Search of Economic Order: French Predecessors of Adam Smith

    • Robert F. Hébert

    Pages 185-210

14. The International Foundations of Classical Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century: An Alternative Perspective

    • Peter D. Groenewegen

    Pages 211-220

15. The Scottish Enlightenment and Political Economy

    • Herbert F. Thomson

    Pages 221-255

16. The Scottish Enlightenment: Evaluation of Origins

    • Salim Rashid

    Pages 256-263

17. Back Matter

    Pages 265-271

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The scholars invited to contribute the primary essays for this collection were given three mandates. The first was to survey the contemporary research in their assigned fields and to provide a bibliography that would give any interested scholar an entree into the literature. The second was to develop their own interpretive perspective on the economic literature of their assigned period. The third, and perhaps the most difficult, was to be very brief and concise. In a project of this type it would be difficult to extrapolate themes or evolutionary sequences that run through the literature over the two thousand years spanned by this survey. To some degree, the invited commentators provide a fund of suggestions that will stimulate interested readers to pursue this line of synthesis for themselves. The editor of this collection did not even entertain the idea of trying to coordinate the presentations and commentaries of this intellectually erudite and diverse group of scholars into agreed upon lines of interpretation. There is enough material, however, to provide a reference base for the interested scholar who desires to follow particular ideas from period to period.

• Adam Smith
• economics
• economy
• evaluation
• foundation
• political economy

• Department of Economics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA

  S. Todd Lowry

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