The Political Economy of Juan de Mariana by John S.J. Laures

The Political Economy of Juan de Mariana by John S.J. Laures

By John S.J. Laures

Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), an important philosopher of the Spanish renaissance, used to be a founding father of financial technological know-how. This examine of his writings and legacy seemed in 1928 and has no longer been reprinted formerly. Prof. Fr. Laures explores his pondering on price, trade, cash, entrepreneurship, hard work, taxes, and extra, and demonstrates that he's an immense if missed founding father of fiscal technological know-how and classical liberalism.

Trained within the culture of Thomas Aquinas, Juan de Mariana made large advances in not just economics but in addition in legislation and sociology.

He was once famously jailed for going too a long way in his explorations of the illegitimacy of the country and what humans may perhaps think about doing approximately it. yet even in legal, he made significant contributions. Tenacious, incredible, leading edge, and bold, Mariana provokes even today.

This is a necessary quantity for realizing the background of financial suggestion and the contribution of the past due Scholastics in general. Laures is thorough yet severe of Mariana's extra severe conclusions, and seeks to render his proposal in a manner that's extra politically applicable, yet that does not lessen the price of the exposition, that's infrequent and masses welcome.

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Therefore it is imperative that he contemn earthly things the sacrifice of which will bring him eternal recompense. Mariana has asserted that primitive society was formed by mutual consent. Some will say, he admits, that all great empires were a result of conquest and violence. He does not and cannot deny the fact that some States came into existence in this way, but he maintains that others originated by mutual consent and extended their borders by just wars only. He firmly believes that empires based upon violence 1 Quae societas ea maxime de causa constituta est, ut quoniam uni non suppetunt, quae ad victum cultumque vitae necessaria Bunt, alterna ope cunctorum suppleatur inopia: uti in corpore animantis videmus membra inter se suas functiones participare quodam ~enere commercii: quo sublato, quid vita humana calamitosius esset, quid foedius?

Non est sibi sufficiens, et ideo ex natura rei necessaria ulterius est in genere humano communitas politica, quae civitatem saltem constituat, et ex pluribus familiis coalescat; quia nulla familia potest in se habere omnia ministeria, et omnes artes necessarias ad vitam humanam, et multo minus potest sufficere ad assequendam omnium rerum necessariarum cognitionem. Item quia si singulae familiae essent inter se divisae, vix posset pax inter homines conservari, neque injuriae possent ordinate propulsari, aut vindicari, .

Under ordinary circumstances, hut he concedes the irregularity of conquest with suhsequent consent of the people. 1 Comparing Mariana and Suarez, we see that their views are not in exact agreement. Mariana is patently influenced by the doctrine of classical antiquity, especially as expressed in the writings of Polybius and Seneca,-a fact which is not surprising to one who notes in how many respects his writings reveal the influence of the Renaissance. His Latin is elegant and his presentation fascinating.

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