Economics and Ethics: Juan de Lugo's Theory of the Just Price, or the Responsibility of Living in Society
考察了经院哲学家胡安·德·卢戈的公平价格理论,强调其人类学、道德和法律基础,并指出该理论在防止经济强制中的作用,与主流经济学中的理性经济人假设形成对比。
This paper will ascertain the theory of the just price, according to Juan de Lugo (1583–1660), the last great representative of the Scholastics. First we will draw up Lugo's “vision” of the just price, stressing the anthropological, moral, and legal foundations and emphasizing the theory's coherence; the relevant issue is that such a price theory would contain its own principle of intelligibility. Second, we will point out the role of this theory in preventing economic compulsion. This approach could help us to draw upon the moral and economic responsibility of human beings living in society and how this vision differs greatly from neoclassical homo economicus.