Vol. 14 No. Extra-1 (2022): Religious and economists: The moral economy of the School of Salamanca

This is a special issue dedicated to the School of Salamanca, or rather (and as is proven by the contributions in this issue), the Spanish School of Moral Economy (EEE). It turns out that, due to the black legend (Hispanophobic, Roca, 2016. Sánchez-Bayón, 2012 and 2013), especially in its latest editions (the anti-Francoist and Spanish regionalist one, plus the Latin American indigenist and decolonial one), it has been renounced and erased any Spanish heritage, especially if it was as brilliant as EEE's. This school was a benchmark of modern thought, a guide to globalization at that time and present throughout the known world (at least in its network of universities, Sánchez-Bayón, 2010 and 2015): it favored the transit of traditional or pure theology ( on the attributes of God), to the modern or political (on the political organization of the people of God); from iusromanism to the new law of nations and/or International Law; from natural to positive iushumanism (via the statutory common law of the Indies), etc. In this issue of JSTR, attention is paid to his lesser-known and yet key contribution to understanding the positive economy that has developed since the end of the 20th century. XVIII: EEE systematizes a novel moral economy, by synthesizing Aristotelian realism and scholastic nominalism, thanks to the practical legal approach (iuscanonic), thus establishing economic-financial principles applicable to families, businessmen and governments, in addition to inspiring future monetary schools and banking; it also helps to alert against the cyclical economic maladjustment of inflation (either due to an excess of precious metals and a generalized and sustained rise in prices, the bastardization of the currency or credit expansions without savings); without forgetting his precursor theories of value, prices, interest and exchange rates, etc.