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Pre-Classical Economic Thought Recent Economic Thought Series Warren J. Samuels, Editor Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. Other titles in the series: Feiwel, G. R., Samuelson and Neoclassical Economics Wade, L. L., Political Economy: Modern Views Zimbalist, A., Comparative Economic Systems: Recent Views Darity, W., Labor Economics: Modern Views Jarsulic, M., Money and Macro Policy Samuelson, L., Microeconomic Theory Bromley, D., Natural Resource Economics: Policy Problems and Contemporary Analysis Mirowski, P., The Reconstruction of Economic Theory Field, A. J., The Future of Economic History This series is devoted to works that present divergent views on the development, prospects, and tensions within some important research areas of international economic thought. Among the fields covered are macromonetary POlICY, public finance, labor and political economy. The emphasis of the series is on providing a critical, constructive view of each of these fields, as well as a forum through which leading scholars of international reputation may voice their perspectives on important related issues. Each volume in the series wlll be self-contained; together these volumes will provide dramatic evidence of the variety of economic thought within the scholarly community Pre-Classical Economic Thought From the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment edited by S. Todd Lowry Professor of Economics and Administration Washington and Lee University ~ " Kluwer Academic Publishers Boston/OordrechtiLancaster Distributors for the United States and Canada" Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA, 02061, USA for the UK and Ireland" Kluwer Academic Publishers, MTP Press Limited, Falcon House, Queen Square, Lancaster, LA 1 1R N, UK for all other countries: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Distribution Centre, P.O. Box 322,3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pre-classical economic thought (Recent economic thought series) Bibliography: p. Includes index 1. Economics - History I. Lowry, S. Todd II. Series: Recent economic thought. HB75.P72 1986 330'.09 86-20851 ISBN -13.978-94-010-7960-0 e-ISBN-13:978-94-009-3255-5 DOl: 10,1007/978-94-009-3255-5 Copyright © 1987 by Kluwer Academic Publishers Softcovcr reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1987 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print photoprint, microfilm, or any other means without written permission of the publisher, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA, 02061 Contents Contributing Authors vii Preface ix Introduction S. Todd Lowry 2 The Greek Heritage in Economic Thought 7 S. Todd Lowry Commentary by William F. Campbell 31 The Old Art of Political Economy 3 Biblical and Early Judeo-Christian Thought: Genesis to Augustine 43 Barry Gordon Commentary by Roman A. Ohrenstein 68 Some Socioeconomic Aspects of Judaic Thought 4 Islamic Economic Thought 77 M. Yassine Essid Commentary by Timur Kuran 103 Continuity and Change in Islamic Economic Thought 5 Scholastic Economics 115 Odd Langholm Commentary by Stephen T. Worland 136 Scholastic Economics v VI CONTENTS 6 The Development of Mercantilist Economic Thought 147 Richard C. Wiles Commentary by Lars Magnusson 174 The Language of Mercantilism 7 In Search of Economic Order: French Predecessors of Adam Smith 185 Robert F. Hebert Commentary by Peter D. Groenewegen 211 The International Foundations of Classical Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century: An Alternative Perspective 8 The Scottish Enlightenment and Political Economy 221 Herbert F. Thomson Commentary by Salim Rashid 256 The Scottish Enlightenment: Evaluation of Origins Index 265 Contributing Authors William F. Campbell Odd Langholm Department of Economics Norwegian School of Economics & Louisiana State University Business Administration Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Helleveien 30 N-5035 Bergen-Sandviken Norway M. Yassine Essid 9, Rue des Suffettes s. Todd Lowry Salammbo Department of Economics Tunisie Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia 24450 Barry Gordon Department of Economics Lars Magnusson University of Newcastle Department of Economic History New South Wales, 2309 Uppsala University Australia Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Peter D. Groenewegen Sweden Department of Economics University of Sydney Roman A. Ohrenstein New South Wales, 2006 Department of Economics Australia Nassau Community College Stewart Avenue Robert Hebert Garden City, New York 11530 Department of Economics Auburn University Salim Rashid Auburn, Alabama 36849-3501 Department of Economics University of Illinois at Timur Kuran Urbana-Champaign Box 111 Department of Economics 330 Commerce Building (West) University of Southern California 1206 South Sixth Street Los Angeles, California 90089-0035 Champaign, Illinois 61820 VII VIII CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Herbert F. Thomson Stephen T. Worland Department of Economics Department of Economics Muskingum College University of Notre Dame New Concord, Ohio 43762 Notre Dame, Indiana 56556 Richard C. Wiles Department of Economics Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 Preface 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. The requirements of brevity placed frustrating limitations upon the authors of the principal papers. In most cases, it led the specialists invited to comment on each chapter to devote considerable attention to supple menting the essay they were criticizing. The commentators were free from the burden of systematic coverage and, therefore, were able to focus upon their primary interests and draw out their preferred lines of inter pretation. One should read these pairs of essays with this unequal burden in mind. The contributors and commentators were selected on the basis of their reputations and research in the particular areas in which they specialize IX x PREFACE and the result has been an international aggregation of cosmopolitan scholars. They have all been very prompt and cooperative in the course of preparing this collection for publication. I am greatly indebted to my wife, Faye Cole Lowry, for her careful editorial scrutiny of all the contributions, and in particular for a heavy contribution to bibliographic research and the editing of my own chapter in this collection. Finally, the advice and freedom of choice proffered by Warren Samuels, the general editor of this series created a pleasant academic incentive, as has the helpful cooperation of the staff at Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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