Analysis of Book Benedetto Cotrugli on Markets Business and Economic Growth Essay

I’m trying to study for my History course and I need some help to understand this question.

 

Question: We have seen many ideas of the value of trade and how it works. Cotrugli is the most in-depth economic and business writer of the early Renaissance. What does he think about how markets, business and economic growth work? What sources does he draw on? Does he believe in a self-regulating system that drives commerce and wealth? For him, what is essential to creating wealth and what sources does he draw on that we have already seen?

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Specifications:

– 5-8 pages, double spaced

– cite using Chicago style footnotes

– focus sources on: Cicero, Aquinas, Ockham, St. Ambrose & St. Augustin