Commercial fraud in the middle ages: the case of the dissembling pepperer

Reyerson, Kathryn L.

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“…14 In turn, Steele was building on centuries of Christian thought about ________________________ 13 what's right and wrong in commerce, and what a pious merchant should and shouldn't do. These problems had been tackled by important theologians, jurists, and the law (cf., e.g., Reyerson 1982)-to mention but one important example, Aquinas devotes a question in the Summa Theologiae to "fraud committed in the course of buying and selling." 15 Not surprisingly, the ultimate source for this body of business ethics was the Christian scriptures, e.g., commendations of commercial honesty and condemnations of false weights and measures.…”

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How to Tell the History of Business Ethics

Abend¹

2016

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The history of U.S. business ethics and CSR exhibits some key normative continuities and stability. I argue that these normative continuities and stability are underlain by moral background discontinuities and variation. The former I call "first-order" stability and the latter I call "second-order" variation. The second-order or moral background level is where the action is-at least, the action that sheds most light on our understanding of society, morality, and the moral foundations of capitalist societies. Next, I consider one facet of the moral background that might be of special interest to business ethics and CSR scholars: the demarcation of morality. How are boundaries between moral and non-moral things drawn? How are they institutionalized and policed? How do they vary across time and place? However, I also show why these empirical questions are conceptually trickier than they may appear at first sight.

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How to Tell the History of Business Ethics

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2016

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“…Yet the evidence seems to suggest that fraud was not insignificant (Davis 1966, pp. 31-32;Hilaire 2013, 9;Reyerson 1982). For instance, the regulations of the Flemish merchant guilds trading at the English fairs of the 13th century "spell out in considerable detail the varieties of dishonesty on the part of the Englishmen who were selling wool or buying cloth.…”

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The Medieval Law Merchant: The Tyranny of a Construct

Kadens¹

2015

Journal of Legal Analysis

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The story of a medieval law merchant has a strong hold on scholars interested in private ordering. Despite numerous historical works demonstrating the falsity of the myth, it continues to be discussed regularly in scholarship as if it were an accurate portrayal of the past. This article tests the law merchant story against evidence about the mechanisms of medieval trade. It suggests that medieval commerce had little space for a specialized law, and that merchants had little need for it because of both the well-developed trading infrastructure and the actions of local governments to ensure the protection of legal rights.

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All That Glitters: Chaucer’s Pardoner, Safrounen, and Culinary Deception

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2024

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Commercial fraud in the middle ages: the case of the dissembling pepperer

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

How to Tell the History of Business Ethics

How to Tell the History of Business Ethics

The Medieval Law Merchant: The Tyranny of a Construct

All That Glitters: Chaucer’s Pardoner, Safrounen, and Culinary Deception

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