The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought

It is a matter of academic routine to consider economic thought as havingexclusively AngloAmerican origins. However many of the civilizations thatflourished in ... » 

It is a matter of academic routine to consider economic thought as havingexclusively AngloAmerican origins. However many of the civilizations thatflourished in the Mediterranean basin long before the rise of the Atlanticeconomies bequeathed a rich legacy of economic thinking. It was a traditiondeeply embedded in politics ethics and religion it was in fact moresweeping and complete than that of the West.The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought surveys the development ofthis tradition over four millennia. It considers the economic context of thescriptures of the Mesopotamian civilizations Pharaonic Egypt and the Biblicalpeoples and the contributions of the Greeks and Romans and their influence onIslamic civilization and on the Medieval scholastics. The flowering of theschool of Salamanca as recently as the seventeenth century demonstrates howlonglived the tradition was and throughout the author demonstrates how theseideas continue to survive and resurface citing the renewed interest in theethical dimension of economics the revival of interest in the history ofIslamic thought and the reemergence of Slavophile doctrine in contemporaryRussia. «