Raymond de Roover
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Raymond Adrien de Roover (1904–1972), was a noted economic historian of medieval Europe, whose scholarship explained why Scholastic
Scholasticism
Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100–1500, and a program of employing that method in articulating and defending orthodoxy in an increasingly pluralistic context...

 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
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

 was the last of, and culmination of, the Scholastic economists. De Roover taught at Harvard University
Harvard University
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, University of Chicago
University of Chicago
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, Boston College
Boston College
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, and Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College
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 in The City University of New York
City University of New York
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, in addition to various European universities, and was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1949.

De Roover and his wife appear as minor characters in The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, a novel by the American Novelist Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays.-Life:Born in New York City to an upper class family, Mathews was educated at private schools there and at the Groton School in Massachusetts before enrolling at Princeton University in 1947...

. (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.

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