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The Origins of Austrian Economics in the Treaties of the Theologians of Salamanca

In: The Emergence of a Tradition: Essays in Honor of Jesús Huerta de Soto, Volume I

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  • Anton Afanasiev

    (Central Economic and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

Our short study is devoted to some important origins of Austrian economics in the treatises of Salamanca theologians (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries). According to Professor Huerta de Soto, the professors of Salamanca discovered the following basic doctrines. First, the idea of the impossibility of human cognition and strictly mathematical calculation of the fair price of a product (1617, 1642). Second, the dynamic concept of competition between buyers (1597). Third, the dynamic concept of between sellers (1597). We develop the investigation of Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto. According to our previous studies, we show that the first two doctrines were discovered earlier by Juan de Medina (1546). We also add the main contribution of the Portuguese friar Rodrigo do Porto: the origins of the Quantity Theory (1549) and the doctrine (together with famous Spanish doctor Martin de Azpilcueta Navarro) of the moral justification for selling basic necessities at prices higher than state prices (1552).

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  • Anton Afanasiev, 2023. "The Origins of Austrian Economics in the Treaties of the Theologians of Salamanca," Springer Books, in: David Howden & Philipp Bagus (ed.), The Emergence of a Tradition: Essays in Honor of Jesús Huerta de Soto, Volume I, pages 15-21, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-17414-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17414-8_2
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