Agency, exchange, and power in scholastic thought

Richard Sturn

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, vol. 24, issue 4, 640-669

Abstract: The socio-economic reasoning of the schoolmen originated from heterogeneous roots and influences and developed over centuries. This is reflected in divergent interpretations of scholastic economic thought. Two conceptual coordinates are used to put those discussions into a common perspective: (1) the distinction between agency-sensitive vs. agency-neutral exchange; (2) the divide between intellectualism and voluntarism. While focussing important theological influences on key issues of economic thought, this allows for a critical account of continuity of problems, while at the same time taking seriously the profound transformation of knowledge systems since the scholastic era.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2017.1338393

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