... DOI 10.1215/00182702-2006-033 Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the “Great Gap” in European Eco- nomics. Edited by S. M. Ghazanfar. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xv; 284 pp. $70.00. Frustrated about a conspicuous lack of acknowledgment of the contributions of Muslim medieval...

... and I. S. Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Economics in the Medieval Schools, Wealth, Exchange, Value, Money, and Usury according to the Paris Theological Tradition, 1200-1350. By Odd Langholm. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.633 pp. Bibliography and indices. In comparison to the vast...

...: Dover. Briffault , Robert . 1928 . The Making of Humanity . London: G. Allan and Unwin. Crombie , A. C. 1963 . Medieval and Early Modern Science . 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Davani , Asaad . 1946 . The Akhlaq-e-Jalali . Translated by W. F. Thompson. London...

...Jeffrey L. Callen This study evaluates the extent to which the asset valuation arguments raised by medieval post-Talmudic legal scholars are consistent with modern contingent claims analysis. In particular, this study evaluates the arguments proposed by these scholars in order to rationalize...

..., and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Mod- ern Europe: Selected Studies of Raymond de Roover. Edited by Julius Kirshner. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Pp. 378. $13.00. Professor Kirshner has brought out a carefully selected posthumous col- lection...

... Smith. University of Illinois SALIMRASHID Religious poverty and the pro$t economy in medieval Europe. By Lester K. Little. Ithaca, New York: Come11 University Press, 1983. Pp. 267. $8.95. Lester Little’s Religious poverty and the profit economy in medieval...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Edited by S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon. Leiden: Brill , 1998 . 611 pp . 2000 HOPE 32.2-08.BookReviews 5/10/00 12:42 PM Page 404 404 Book Reviews Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice...

.... Discussion paper. Department of Economics, University of Idaho. Ghazanfar , S. M. , and A. Azim Islahi. 1990 . Economic Thought of Arab Scholastic: Abu Hamid Al Ghazali. HOPE 22 . 2 : 381 -403. Ghazanfar , S. M. , and A. Azim Islahi. 1992 . Exploration in Medieval Arab-Islamic Economic...

...Sylvie Lupton This article highlights the contributions of early economic thought to quality uncertainty. Both Roman law regarding fraud and medieval thinkers (such as Vacarius, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and Astesanus of Asti) scrutinized asymmetric information and shared uncertainty...

...John D. Singleton In the history of economic thought, Martin Luther is frequently identified with medieval Scholastic doctrine. His belief that “money is sterile” is offered in support of this assessment. However, this obscures the fact that Luther rarely invokes this line of reasoning in his...

... determinants, and argued against economic coercion, collusion, and certain monopolistic practices. It is frequently possible to tie Luther in with medieval literary traditions on these subjects and sometimes to identify a specific source. Correspondence may be addressed to Odd Langholm, Norwegian School...

... to an agrarian economic theory are best described as the “writing workshop” of François Quesnay rather than as the “physiocratic” school. Quesnay organized and supervised the work of these individuals, who assisted him in a manner clearly reminiscent of that of workshops of artists from late medieval and early...

... Scholastics: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (1058–1111), “acclaimed asthe greates tcertainly one of the greatest” (Watt 1963, vii) and “by general consent, the most important thinker of medieval Islam” (Bagley 1964, xv); and St. ThomasAquinas(1225–1274), the most prominent of the European-Latin Schoolmen...

... There is a sharp division in medieval economic theory between teach- ers of canon and Roman law, who, with some qualifications,' consid- ered a sale legitimate provided only that the price was acceptable to both parties, and Scholastic writers, who taught that it was sinful to sell a good for more...

...? There has been much debate about this. Thomas Aquinas is generally acknowledged to be the reference point in any study of the medieval just price as evidenced by his influence on later scholarship on this issue. This is due to his appropriation and extension of Aristotle and Albert the Great...

... and canonists—concerned with issues of contract and property rights (Baldwin 1959; Gilchrist 1969). By far the largest body of medieval economic thought may be found in the work of moral theologians, who, in the normal course of their inquiries, dis- cussed money, distributive justice, value, and usury...

... to several economic authors throughout the centuries. St. Thomas Aquinas, the most important of medieval philosophers and founder of modern Catholic theology, is considered to be one of the greatest disciples of Aristotle. It is then natural that Aquinas, who drew much of his political economy from...

... of conceptual and analytic problems associated with the expansion of medieval commerce. This is a mirror image of Mirowski’s for- mulation of the influence of mechanistic science on neoclassical economic theory. Growing out of a doctoral dissertation in mathematics, this book begins with an erudite...

... that the preoccupation of late medieval science with measurement and quantification was itself a product of the monetization of the European economy between 1180 and 1320. It is well known that the High Middle Ages experienced a commercial revolution that foundexpression in the explosive growth of towns andmarkets...

... upon market supervision and community responsibility. The first of the three major categories of medieval Muslim economic literature is the formal letter of advice for ruling an empire known as the “mirror for princes” literature. This literary tradition is usually framed as advice by a father...