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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Series-title 4 Title 5 Copyright 6 CONTENTS 9 PREFACE 11 ABBREVIATIONS 13 INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS, EVIDENCE, AND BACKGROUND 15 THE CHURCH, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY 16 THE ECONOMIC CHANGES 19 THE EVIDENCE 20 THE INFLUENCE OF ARISTOTLE 24 LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS 26 MATHEMATICS AND THE MEAN 26 THE PLAN OF THE BOOK 28 1 PRIVATE PROPERTY VERSUS COMMUNAL RIGHTS: THE CONFLICT OF TWO LAWS 31 INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS AND PROBLEMS 31 ST AUGUSTINE’S SOLUTION: GOD AS AUTHOR OF HUMAN LAW 33 TOWARDS A SOLUTION: CHANGING NATURAL LAW 35 PRIVATE RIGHTS AND THE COMMON GOOD 37 PROPERTY AS NATURAL TO MAN 38 THE MONASTIC SOLUTION: IMITATING JERUSALEM 39 THE MENDICANT SOLUTION: TOTAL POVERTY 41 THE STEWARDSHIP SOLUTION: THE POPE AS STEWARD 44 JOHN WYCLIF’S SOLUTION: THE KING AS STEWARD 46 A SECULAR SOLUTION 47 TAXATION 50 CONCLUSION 55 2 WEALTH, BEGGARY, AND SUFFICIENCY 56 INTRODUCTION: RECIPROCITY AND THE MEAN 56 ATTITUDES TO POVERTY 57 ATTITUDES TO WEALTH 64 AVARICE AND CHARITY: JUSTICE AND MERCY 67 THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR 70 DISCRIMINATION IN GIVING 74 CREDIT IN HEAVEN 77 CONCLUSION 81 3 WHAT IS MONEY? 83 INTRODUCTION 83 THE TWO ROLES: ARISTOTLE AND THE ORIGINS OF MONEY 85 THE NATURE AN
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- Author
- Diana Wood
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business
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