Raymond de Roover

Raymond Adrien de Roover (1904–1972), was a noted economic historian of medieval Europe,^[1] whose scholarship explained why Scholastic economic thought is best understood as a precursor of, and wholly compatible with, Classical economic thought. In his day, many economists such as R.H. Tawney taught that Karl Marx was the last of, and culmination of, the Scholastic economists.^[2] De Roover taught at Harvard University, University of Chicago, Boston College, and Brooklyn College in The City University of New York, in addition to various European universities,^[3] and was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1949.^[4]

De Roover and his wife appear as minor characters in The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, a novel by the American Novelist Harry Mathews. (The novel is in part concerned with the Medici.)

Publications

The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397–1494, Beard Books (August 1999), ISBN1597403733
La pensee economique des scolastiques: doctrines et methodes, Montreal, Inst. d'etudes medievales, 1971.

Sources

^ Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390. By James M. Murray. Reviewed by Kathryn Reyerson. Business History Review, Winter 2006, Volume 80, Issue 4 [1].
^ David A. Martin, R. H. Tawney as Economist, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1982), pp. 829-853
^ Journal of Markets & Morality Volume 10, Number 1 (Spring 2007): 1–3 Raymond de Roover’s Enduring Contribution to Economic History. [2]
^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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Name	Roover, Raymond De
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Date of birth	1904
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Date of death	1972
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