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Pre-Classical Economic Thought

From the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. S. Todd Lowry

    1. Department of Economics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 10)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    S. Todd Lowry

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