RATIONALIST SOCIETY
CATHOLIC LIBERALISM
SCHOLASTICS
Roover, Raymond de
Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(ed. Julius Kirshner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974)
- excellent summary of scholastic economics
Noonan, John T. Jr.
The Scholastic Analysis of Usury (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957)
- Rothbard: "definitive study on medieval theories on usury"
Tuck, Richard
Natural Rights: Their Origin and Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
- Rothbard: illuminates the crucial distinction between active/dominion and passive/claim rights theories
Oberman, Heiko A.
The Harvest of Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963)
- Rothbard: Ockhamites turn out to be proto-classical liberal essentialists
Kretzmann, N. (eds.)
The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
- confirmation on Oberman's revisionism
SALAMANCA SCHOOL
Rothbard, Murray N.
New Light on the Prehistory of the Austrian School
(in E. Dolan ed., The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1976)
- scholastics both protopraxeologists and protoliberals
Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie
Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978)
- catholics mostly protoliberals
Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie
The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory; 1544-1605. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952.)
- Salamanca centre of protoliberals
Hamilton, Bernice
Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963)
- Vitoria, DeSoto, Molina, and Suarez as originators of liberalism
Watner, Carl
All Mankind is One: The Libertarian Tradition in Sixteenth Century Spain
(Journal of Libertarian Studies.. Volume 8, Number 2. 1984. p. 293. Pdf-file.)
- libertarian ideas were developed by the scholastics of Salamanca
Lewis, Hanke
All Mankind is One: A Study of the Disputation Between Bartolom de Las Casas and Juan Gins de Sepulveda in 1550 on the Intellectual and Religious Capacity of the American Indians. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1974).
- School of Salamanca developed natural law theories
Chafuen, Alejandro A.
Christians for Freedom: Late-Scholastic Economics (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986)
Soto, Jesus Huerta de
New Light on the Prehistory of the Theory of Banking and the School of Salamanca
(Review of Austrian Economics. Vol. 9. Num. 2. Pdf-file 1240 KB)
- Salamanca school developed many proto-Austrian monetary theories
COUNTER-REFORMATION
Robertson, Hector M.
Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1933)
- Robertson thesis: Jesuits favoured free markets
Brodrick, J.
The Economic Morals of the Jesuits (London: Oxford University Press, 1934)
- Rothbard: "criticizes Robertson, but mostly confirms his thesis"
O'Connell, Marvin R.
The Counter Reformation: 1559-1610. (New York: Harper & Row, 1974)
- on catholic classical liberalism
Baumgartner, Frederich J.
Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought of the French Catholic League (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1976)
- on the classical liberal aspects of the Catholic League
Church, William Farr
Constitutional Thought in Sixteenth-Century France: A Study in the Evolution of Ideas (1941, New York: Octagon Books, 1969)
- how Catholicism gradually started to support absolutism
Jászi, Oscar and Lewis, John D.
Against the Tyrant: The Tradition and Theory of Tyrannicide (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1957)
- catholics developed the theory of tyrannicide