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Aquinas in his analysis of the just price continues Aristotle’s analysis of exchange within the context of justice. In the long periods from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, there was a growing understanding of the merits of markets but some mild reservations about them.
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Rutherford, D. (2016). After the Greeks. In: Suspicions of Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40808-8_4
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