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A major factor affecting the spirit and content of scholastic economic thought was the rediscovery of Aristotle and the subsequent effort to synthesize his pagan views into the mainstream of Judeo-Christian revelation. To fully appreciate Langholm’s thoughtful and illuminating exposition of scholastic economics, it might be helpful to emphasize two basic factors in the Aristotelian revival. Doing so will clarify both the historical development from patristic to scholastic economic thought and will also bring out a crucial philosophical distinction between the latter and contemporary mainstream neo-classical economics.
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Worland, S.T. (1987). Scholastic Economics. In: Todd Lowry, S. (eds) Pre-Classical Economic Thought. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3255-5_9
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