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Analysis risk and commercial risk: the first treatment of usury in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences

Pierre JanuardMaison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PHARE, Paris, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 599-634 | Published online: 23 Dec 2020

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