Download or read book Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice written by S. Todd Lowry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 scholars contribute to this survey of past discussions of the workings of economic structures and of justice in interpersonal relations, cultural institutions and the social order. They investigate the sources in each historic period from the world of the Old Testament and the ancient Greeks through to Spanish scholasticism and its offshoots in the Spanish Americas of the 18th century and relate the ideas of writers from the past to modern discussions.