Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 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 mentioned in the text
- Glossary of terms
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 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 mentioned in the text
- Glossary of terms
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
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- Medieval Economic Thought , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002