Diana Wood

Medieval Economic Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to medieval economic thought from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9780521452601
• ISBN-10: 0521452600
• Artikelnr.: 35453819

Autorenporträt

Diana Wood is Senior Research Fellow in History, University of East Anglia, and Associate Tutor in Local History, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. Her publications include Clement VI: the Pontificate and Ideas of an Avignon Pope (Cambridge, 1989).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: problems, evidence, and background
1. Private property versus communal rights: the conflict of two laws
2. Wealth, beggary and sufficiency
3. What is money?
4. Sovereign concerns: weights, measures and coinage
5. The mercantile system
6. The just price and the just wage
7. The nature of usury: the usurer as winner
8. The theory of interest: the usurer as loser
Conclusion
Appendix: notes on the main writers and anonymous works used in the text
Glossary
Bibliography.