... Economic Analysis Before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius. By Barry Gordon. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. 4>. xiii, 282. $27.50. This is a learned, important addition to the literature of the history of economic thought in the West-one with appeal to historians and social scien- tists...

... of Pictorial Composition, 1350–1450 . Oxford: Clarendon. Baxandall , Michael . 1988 . Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style . 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Beutels , Robert . 1987 . Leonardus Lessius (1554–1623...

... in Portugal. The Jesuit Leonardus Lessius (1554-1623) introduced their way of thinking to the University of Louvain in Flanders. The analysis of the national and especially the international mechanisms (commercial, financial and monetary) forms an important part of their writings. The moral...

...; it was governed by the same justice that applied to commodities exchange (Gordon 1975, 262). This omission is understandable, if not expected, because the medieval economy was not as heavily a wage-labor economy as it is today. Even Leonard Lessius, who was among the few who con- sidered wage...

... to the literature. Fox-Genovese is to be en- couraged to apply her interpretive skills to other areas of the history of economics. Michigan State University WARRENJ. SAMUELS Economic Analysis Before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius. By Barry Gordon. New York: Barnes & Noble...

... and the Making of Consumer Society . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. Gordon, B. 1975 . Economic Analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius . London: Macmillan. Grice-Hutchinson, M. 1978 . Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 . London: George Allen & Unwin. Hatcher, J. 1998...

... and the expenses of production] is entirely compat- ible with those of Lessius, Molina and Adam Smith although the scope of his analysis is much narrower than that of Smith and of Smith’s lib- eral Scholastic predecessors” (1992,7). Regarding Pufendorf, he noted that “Pufendorf’s economics is entirely...

... Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius . London: Macmillan. Henry of Ghent. 1979 . Quodlibet I. In vol. 5 of Opera Omnia . Leiden: E. J. Brill. Henry of Langenstein. 1484 . Tractatus bipartitus de contractibus . Cologne: Johann Koelhoff. Höffner, Joseph. 1941 . Wirtschaftsethik und Monopole im...

... and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice , edited by S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon. Leiden: E.J. Brill. González Fabre, R. 2005 . Ética y economía . Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer. Gordon, B. 1975 . Economic Analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius . London: Macmillan. Gray...

..., Christoph. 1998 . Buridans Kommentare zur Nikomachischen Ethik: Drei unechte Literalkommentare. Vivarium 36.2 : 234 -49. Glorieux, P. 1971 . La faculté des arts et ses maîtres au XIIIe siècle . Paris: J. Vrin. Gordon, Barry. 1975 . Economic Analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius...

.... Journal of Libertaran Studies 7 . 2 ( Fall ): 287 -294. Gordon , B. J. 1975 . Economic Thought before Adam Smith, Hesiod to Lessius . New York: Barnes & Noble. Grice-Hutchison , M. 1975 . Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177–1740 . Boston and London: Allen & Unwin...

... and Scholastics frequently suggested the use of real, ‘fair-minded’ arbitrators to settle disputes and determine what was just (Cahn 1969, p. 46). 13. The possibility of monopsony was discussed by Lessius; see de Roover 1951, p. 500. 238 History of Political Economy 12:2 (1980) moral...

... to Lessius. London. Grice-Hutchinson. M. 1978. Early economic thoughr in Spin. London. Heichelheim. F. M. 1940. 'Roman Syria.' In T. Frank. ed.. An economic srtrvey of ancient Rome, vol. 4 (Paterson, N.J Hicks. 1. R. 1969. A theory of economic history. Oxford. Hollander. S. 1965...

... of Social Cost. Journal of Law and Economics 3 : 1 -44. ____. 1974 . The Lighthouse in Economics. Journal of Law and Economics 17 : 357 -76. Gordon, Barry. 1975 . Economic Analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius . New York: Harper & Row. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1798...

... the result of fluctuations in the market that could not be wholly foreseen. Nor were art objects like victuals, whose just price was established by a common estimate—the informed judgment of partici- pants in the market, taking all circumstances into consideration. Lessius recognized that public auctions...

... Orthodox Theological Review 25 . 1 : 94 -102. Gordon , B. 1975 . Economic Analysis before Adam Smith—Hesiod to Lessius. London: Macmillan. Gordon , B. 1987 . Biblical and Early Judeo-Christian Thought: Genesis to Augustine. In Pre-Classical Economic Thought—From the Greeks...

.... Gray, A. (Sir). 1980 . The Development of Economic Doctrine: An Introductory Survey . 2d ed. Revised by A. Thompson. London: Longman. Gordon, B. 1975 . Economic Analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius . London: Macmillan. Henderson, W. 2000 . John Ruskin's Political Economy . London...

... and Scholastic Roots of Leonardus Lessius's Economic Thought. Storia del pensièro economico 37. www.cce.unifi.it/dse/spe/indici/numero37/baeck.htm . Benoit, Paul. 1988 . The Commercial Arithmetic of Nicolas Chuquet. In Mathematics from Manuscript to Print , edited by Cynthia Hay, 96 -116. Oxford...

... analysis before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius (New York, 1975) touches on many matters of sub- I22 Campbell Pericles and sophistication of economics 123 One article, however, is very important to the narrower theme of this section: Kurt Singer’s “ ‘Oikonomia’: an inquiry...

... reserve is not to be regarded as ~uperfluityIn a 1593 manuscript which remained unpublished until 1912, L. Lessius pre- sented the same argument when examining the definition of “su- perfluity. Even if, before the sixteenth century, the Scholastics were hostile towards striving...