Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

This course traces economic thought from pre-biblical times to the period of mercantilism. Topics to be covered include: The scientific revolution and its influence on economic thought, Pre-Classic economic thought, Greek influence on Economic Thought, Economic thought in the Bible and in the Judeo-Christian world, Roman law in the History of Economic Thought, Islamic Economic Thought, Scholasticism, Commercial Capitalism and Scholastic Economic Thought, the problem of usury and the neutrality of money, monetary theories in Spain from the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, mercantilism, the national state, bourgeoisie society and commercial capitalism.