Houdt, Toon Van - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 5 (1998) 1, pp. 1-35
The Jesuit theologian Leonard Lessius contributed his own small part to the intellectual renewal of the so-called 'School of Salamanca' by introducing into the scholastic doctrine on lending a new extrinsic title, which he termed 'lack of money' (carentia pecuniae). In this article, I re-examine...