.... Ruccio, eds. 2001. Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge. London: Routledge. Suskind, Ron. 2004. Without a Doubt. New York Times Magazine, 17 October. www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html. The Merchant in the Confessional: Trade and Price in the Pre-Reformation Peni...

... of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign On the Shoulders of Merchants: Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modern Europe. By Richard W. Hadden. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. 19 1 pp. $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. Given the prominence of mathematics in contemporary...

...: The Man and His Works . Indianapolis: Liberty. Willis , K. 1979 . The Role in Parliament of the Economic Ideas of Adam Smith, 1776-1800. HOPE 11 . 4 ( Winter ): 505 -44. Adam Smith and the Glasgow Merchants James A. Gherity A number of years ago, S. G. Checkland observed...

...-French Treaty of Commerce of 1713: Tory Trade Politics and the Question of Dutch Decline.” The History of European Ideas 36 ( 2 ): 167 – 80 . Alimento Antonella . 2014 . “Beyond the Treaty of Utrecht: Véron de Forbonnais's French Translation of the British Merchant (1753).” History...

... credit in modem business,’ which formed the basis of chapter 5 of Business enterprise, and the second a translation by Griffin of Robert Steigerwald’s ‘Habermas and Marxism.’ University of Victoria MALCOLMRUTHERFORD Tradefull merchants: the portrayal...

...Matthew Watson Abstract Adam Smith's biographers have been in no doubt how important his experiences of living and working among Glasgow's merchant community were to the content of The Wealth of Nations . Many Smith scholars who themselves have been based in the city go further. They insist...

...Tiago Mata; Robert Van Horn This essay illuminates a neglected aspect of Friedrich Engels's life: his work at his family's textile firm, Ermen & Engels, in Manchester, the hub of the cotton industry in the mid-nineteenth century. We argue that Engels was a merchant and an intelligencer...

... Congress, which were reissued as an Econometrica supplement, 1949) “under the stimulation of statistical work for the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board, the British-American board dealing with merchant shipping problems during the second world war.” Similarly, the contributions of George B. Dantzig...

... of utility. Contemporary critics of rational choice theory take this naturalized image of the economic agent as its bogeyman, ignoring the social infrastructure that brought this agent, thinking as a merchant, into existence. The idea that we calculate captures a sociohistorical reality, rather than...

... ( 3 ): 319 – 38 . Bernstein William J. 2004 . The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created . New York : McGraw-Hill . Brenner Robert . 1993 . Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550–1653...

... Postlethwayt (1707?-1767). At that time the author did not know of all the publications on the subject which Postlethwayt put out, nor was he aware that in all prob- ability Postlethwayt, known as a plagiarist,2 took over “his” project from a certain merchant who later cooperated with him...

... in the economy must abstain from consumption. If banks create credit which is then used by merchants in an attempt to create stock this is misinfor- mation. The credit given by the banks does not necessarily indicate that savings have been made somewhere in the economy. Smith was aware...

... of the time argued the issue: not the economists, but the politicians, the merchants, the shipping people, the landlords, the farmers, the laborers. More particularly, the subject is what arguments were made for and against free trade; who made them; what merit they had; how they were...

..., and possibly Abu Nasr Farabi). In fact, even today many Muslim theologians of non-Arab countries still publish their theological works in Arabic (including the Ayatollah Khomeini). 2. The Islamic View of Trade and the Merchant during the Middle Ages It is a well-known fact that trade was already...

... studied theology and was ordained in the Domini- can Order, he returned to his native Seville. Mercado had close contacts with the business communities in both Mexico and Seville. This, and his experi- ence as confessor, made him aware of the conflict faced by merchants caught between...

... issue before the nineteenth century, however, although the special status of negotiable paper may go back to eleventh-century Italy, and even further in the Arabic world. The other myth that Rogers disturbs is the tradition that the law merchant, with its credit instruments, existed...

... to the Privy Council between 1600 and 1620 include more contributions by Malynes than by any other merchant.6 If any mer- cantile writer influenced policy during the Jacobean years, then the most likely candidate is Gerrard Malynes. Malynes as a Merchant One of the most striking themes...

... . The Merchant in the Confessional . Leiden: E. J. Brill. ———. 2006 . Monopoly and Market Irregularities in Medieval Economic Thought: Traditions and Texts to A.D. 1500. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 28 : 395 -411. Lessnoff, Michael H. 1994 . The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant...

.... precious stones, spices, fruits and nuts. the wherewithal to make clothing, stone. and good lumber. Its roads are poor and unsafe. It has no maritime fleet. Its merchants are inept and therefore its foreign trade is entirely passive.5 3. Ibid. 374. 4. Ibid. 382. Most fortunate of all. he...