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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1926
- Pages
- Pages 337
Lend money at interest in medieval Christendom and you could be refused burial in consecrated ground. Tawney begins there, in a world where the price of corn and the taking of interest were matters for the confessional, where the Church claimed economic life as its own province and a merchant's ledger was a moral document.
The true descendant of the doctrines of Aquinas is the labour theory of value. The last of the Schoolmen was Karl Marx.
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