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The article reviews the most significant areas in the development of power relations during the transition from the Middle Ages to the New Age. The state and society, hierarchy and corporation became the main significant reference points at this historical tu...
This article examines law as a central social institution during the Islamic Golden Age (8th–14th centuries) through a sociological and legal lens. While this period is widely recognised for its scientific and intellectual achievements, the social foundations...
This essay constitutes the first part of an investigation into the origin and consequences of the concept of “national sovereignty,” focusing specifically on the concept of “nation” as derived from the Latin natio and the languages that adopted this lexical r...
The main aim of this article is to provide an overview of public banking in the Crown of Aragon during the fifteenth century. To do so, the phenomenon is first situated within its international context, by examining other forms of public banking that emerged...
The objective in this paper is to address topics of economic inequality, discrimination, and crime from the story of the people of Lut (Sodom and Gomorrah) for an Economics of Religion class. The sin of the people of Lut is placed in an economic context from...
Abstract This article situates the contributions to the special issue in the context of the history of missionary economies and accounting practices. Instead of focusing on economic efficiency, new approaches in accounting history have been considering other...
The aim of this article is to analyse an aspect of the reconceptualization of the crusade that took place under Pope Innocent III, drawing on the scholarly concepts of necessity (necessitas) and poverty (paupertas). I will first trace some major changes in th...
While recent scholarship has explored the theological foundations of modern economic ideas, it has focused almost exclusively on general or ordinary providence (God’s action through secondary, natural causes) at the expense of special or extraordinary provide...
Purpose ‒ This paper compares how religious constraints on interest-bearing lending shaped medieval credit mechanisms in Western Europe and Islamic legal traditions, emphasizing contractual classification under interest prohibitions.Design/Methodology/Approac...
This article examines how confessional normative frameworks shaped the regulation of financial transactions in early modern Germany through a comparison of the Jesuit theologian Gregorio de Valencia (1549–1603) and the Lutheran theologian Theodor Thumm (1586–...
Albert the Great set out the moral risk incurred by merchants using a varied lexicon that reflects the frequency of occurrences and the maximum loss. Thomas Aquinas, his disciple, summarized Albert’s text by adopting the lexicon of frequency, which, along wit...
Since the writings of Grice-Hutchinson, interest in the economic insights of the School of Salamanca has grown steadily. Especially among representatives of the Austrian School, the Spanish authors of the early modern period are regarded as precursors of mode...
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2026 asked students to explain what governmental service or program is essential and needs to be protected? Keep in mind the governmental role o...
My response to refounding is rooted in my experience as a forest supervisor and line officer—someone who worked in the trenches for 40 years. I dealt firsthand with the daunting challenges of coping with external and internal demands, and at times, dysfunctio...
Appalachia's history of extraction includes the removal of many resources: coal and timber, factory laborers, stories to fuel readers' imaginations, and archaeological remains to fuel the academy. Appalachia's extractive history relies on mythopoeses featurin...
America’s system of public lands—its national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, seashores, and cultural sites—represents one of the great democratic achievements in human history. Much of this achievement has rested on federal stewardship of national resource...
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