Ancient and Medieval Economics

2007 ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Todd Lowry
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Economics

Reply to comments on trade, towns and states: A reconsideration of early medieval economics

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Tom Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Economics

Trade, towns and states: A reconsideration of early medieval economics∗

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Economics

The Muslim Scholars and the History of Economics

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-276
Author(s):  
Abbas Mirakhor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval Economics ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
The Way

Introduction. . .The enterpriser addressing a Greek who had been boasting of the scientificachievement of his people, says: You boast most unreasonably of these sciences;for you did not discover them by your own penetration, but attained them fromthe scientific men of Ptolemy's times; and some sciences you took from the Eygptiansin the days of Prammetichus, and then introduced them into your ownland, and now you claim to have discovered them. The King asked the Greekphilosopher: "Can it be as he says?" He replied saying, "It is true; we obtainedmost of the sciences from the preceding philosophers, as others now receivethem from us. Such is the way of the world - for one people to derive benefitfrom another. Rasail of the Ikhwan Al-SafaNever in any age was any science discovered, but from the beginning of theworld wisdom has increased gradually, and it has not yet been completed asregards this life. Roger Bacon. . .there is no longer any excuse for a pmctice which has confounded the studyof medieval economics since its inception more than a century ago, namely,that of basing the most sweeping historical generalizations on a fav familiarnames, with no regard for context and continuity; even the best textbooks inthe field still skip and jump from one century to the next, in and out of differenttraditions. But a scholastic commentator superimposed his own ideas on thoseaccumulated in the particular tmdition in which he wrote, accepted its premisesand adopted its language. He cannot be fully understood until its foundationis also dug out.It is easy now to forget that those who laid the foundation of modemeconomics in the eighteenth century were as familiar with the accumulated ...

scholarly journals MEDIEVAL ECONOMICS

1920 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 296-300
Author(s):  
Joseph Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Economics

Comments on trade, towns and states: A reconsideration of early medieval economics

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
Reidar Bertelsen
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Economics

Comments on trade, towns and states: A reconsideration of early medieval economics

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Andrén
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Economics
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