Hugo Grotius on Usury: Acknowledging the End of the Scholastic Argument

The Entrepreneur’s Prayer and the Scholastic Inspirations of Free-Market Economics

“…It is challenging to separate one from the other, despite claims in the literature suggesting that their contributions were, in fact, a rejection of the ideas they acknowledged as starting points for their analyses. Regarding Hugo Grotius, for instance, Lapidus ventures to assert that Grotius, in referring to earlier works by scholastic jurists, "has taken pains to find precursors, as if to diminish the originality of his argument" (Lapidus 2023).…”