Middle Ages Economics as a product of moral and political dogma rather than economic thinking
The middle ages covered a period of about one thousand years. Although scholars tend to disagree on the exact dates it’s believed to have extended from the fall of the romans in AD 476 to about 1500. A lot of scholars have come to believe that economic thinking in the Middle Ages was highly dominated by moral and political dogma rather than economic thinking. This they said because of the so many doctrinal backgrounds upon which this particular school of thought and its disciples advocated. Discussing the reason for this believes we shall be focusing our discussion on Thomas Aquinas a major intellectual of this school of thought. He personally made contributions to just price with respect to selling and buying, profit making and loans. Aquinas particularly said all goods must be sold at just price; a price defined as sufficient to maintain the seller at his customary standard of living. he also spoke of wages basing his argument on the Christian principle that sta