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Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition: The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism book cover

1st Edition

Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

By Paolo Santori Copyright 2021
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge
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Delving into the history of economic thought, this book presents a picture of the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism, a tradition that has its protagonists in Thomas Aquinas and the eighteenth-century civil economy, and seeks to understand its presence and relevance for contemporary societies. The book argues that it is reductive to attribute to the ‘Protestant ethic’ the different formations... Read more

1. Introduction 

2. Aquinas's social and economic teachings 

3. Aquinas and economic thought 

4. From Aquinas to civil economy 

5. The Thomistic soul of civil economy 

6. Conclusion 

Index

Biography

Paolo Santori holds a PhD in Sciences of Civil Economy at Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA) University in Rome. Currently, he is a grant research holder for the Centro Universitario Cattolico (CUC) and a member of the Economy of Francesco. In 2020, he taught history of economic thought at the Pontifical Lateran University.　

"Santori’s work thus makes a valuable contribution to the debate on the interpretation of Aquinas from his lineage and posterity, namely civil economy. It sheds light both on medieval economic thought and on the history of civil economy. This book is therefore helpful for all those who study these periods, for those who seek to identify long-term legacies in the history of economic thought, and for those who approach current economic issues from these legacies."

Pierre Januard, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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