El préstamo y el tipo de interés en la tradición aristotélica: Aristóteles, Tomás de Aquino y Calvino

Arnaud Berthoud

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Published: Jun 3, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/015.14.4215

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Berthoud, A. (2011). On Loan and Interest Rate in Aristotelian Tradition: Aristotle, Aquinas and Calvin. Revista Empresa Y Humanismo, 14(2), 13-30. https://doi.org/10.15581/015.14.4215

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Universidad de Lille.

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This paper deals with the change of conception of interest between classical ages and today economics. He maintains that more than a change of moral attitude it means a change in the conception of time caused by the appearance of capitalism. Time, for modern capitalism, is an economic –i.e., a scarce– good with a price, the rate of interest. For Aristotle and Aquinas, the author asserts, this is a false price because money is not a long-lasting good. Interest is then a service between unequal individuals: it is against nature and reveals the violence exerted by a person against another. Finally the article holds that by this change in the concept of time causes a change in the concept of work: work is no more than productive work for which time is not more an interior and subjective time but exterior and objective.

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Interest rate, Time, Capitalism, Work, Aristotle, Aquinas, Calvin.

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XIV, 2 (2011)

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