- A glance at mercantile ethics
- Acknowledgements
- Alexander of Hales theorist of economic dualism
- American gold and inflation
- Analytic deadend of the zero sum economy
- Aristocratic culture parasitism and intolerance
- Aristotelians to prevent wealthgetting
- Aristotles unnatural needs versus Isocrates conveniences
- Attitude to trade before Olivi
- Attitude to usury before Olivi
- Before Petty
- Bullionism and its crisis
- Case 1 exchange of luxury goods with wagegoods
- Case 2 exchange of manufactured goods with raw materials of labour with land
- Case 3 exchange of skilled labour with unskilled labour
- Civic humanism
- Conclusions - 2 3
- Condemnation of the new classes
- Consumption as an Investment I
- Contradictions
- Cosimo Perrotta
- Defence of the new classes
- Different interpretations
- Discovery of the dignity of man
- English poor laws to the mid 1500s
- Expanding production Labour and wealthgetting
- Foreign trade as a means for development
- From alms to human capital A system of productive assistance
- Frugality waste and charity in the fourth century
- Harris and Genovesi productive labour and development
- Human capital and productive labour
- Humanists and others
- Hunger for goods fear of goods
- Increased consumption as an incentive
- Innovators of the sixteenth century
- Labour specialization
- Love of work and wealth in the Old Testament
- Luis Vives
- Mercantilism and free trade a misleading question
- Millenarianism and progress
- Multifaceted Cicero
- Mysticism amid restoration and progress
- Note on references
- Peter Olivi extreme economic dualism
- Petty founder of the concept
- Plato virtue versus enrichment
- Population growth
- Preface
- Productive and unproductive labour
- Profit upon alienation and exports in excess
- Reasonsforfailure
- Scholastic culture and new economy
- Seneca the rhetoric of denial
- Socrates followers in a blind alley Oeconomica Eryxias the Cyrenaics
- Sotosfollowers
- Technical progress
- The Ancients and inner wealth11
- The birth of the modern sciences but not of economics
- The contradiction
- The decline and death of civic humanism
- The development freeze and its sociocultural roots
- The dispute about begging
- The downgrading of philology and rhetoric as tools for knowledge
- The effects of consumption habits on the individual and on society
- The emblematic fortunes of Peter Olivi
- The first Spanish poor laws
- The Franciscans and poverty as a life model
- The historical development of consumption
- The immobile social structure
- The increase in manufacturing
- The misunderstanding about formalism contempt for natural sciences
- The misunderstandings over the subsistence wage
- The monastic economy and the reassessment of labour
- The myth and its several meanings
- The myth of the origins The last thinkers
- The new goods
- The New Testament poverty in spirit
- The organization of human capital
- The pauperist movements
- The philosophical roots of economic dualism
- The relationship between production and trade
- The relationship between the desire for increased wealth and industriousness
- The sixteenth century involution of the merchant class
- The Stoic synthesis
- The struggle against idleness
- The supposed idea of progress in antiquity
- The third theory exchange of goods with different productive potentials
- Three cultures compared
- Three theories of the favourable trade balance
- Trade dependence and import substitution
- Wage levels
- Xenophon a double personality