Talk:Just price

Out of date, inaccurate

This article is inaccurate and does not reflect the current state of the question among historians of economic thought. I have not edited a Wikipedia article before so do not intend to do it myself. But a complete rewrite is sorely needed. The key studies are: J.W. Baldwin, ‘The Medieval Theories of the Just Price’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 49.iv (1959). http://www.jstor.org/stable/1005819 De Roover, Raymond. “The Concept of the Just Price: Theory and Economic Policy.” Journal of Economic History 18 (1958): 418–434. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2114535 --Jason Aaron Brown, University of Toronto 09:51, 3 November 2014

Context

It is important to note that the "just price" concept occurred in a society where market prices were largely determined by direct producers (farmers and craftspeople) without employers, and with merchant involvement confined to exotic goods or occasions of scarcity (including famine). Hence the examination of the subject from an abstract, ahistoric perspective is misleading. However, since this misconception is common, altering the entire article may violate the NPOV commandment.--Jack Upland 09:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

POV?

I think a lot of this article is POV, for example:

"Aquinas would therefore condemn practices such as raising the price of building supplies in the wake of a natural disaster. Increased demand caused by the destruction of existing buildings does not add to a seller's costs, so to take advantage of buyers' increased willingness to pay constituted a species of theft in Aquinas's view."

There is not one reference in this whole article, is this statement above true? Supply and demand works on the principal that if the price is higher, the people who need it can get it, and the guy who was going to buy wood for a little personal project will probably wait for the price to go back down. Therefore, it leaves valuable material behind for those who really need it.

Does anybody watch this article? Wikidan829 13:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Unclear quote

“At the new framework, none could accumulate money under the bed for stroke him between dawn swoon of fetishistic perversion, but I had to bet it quickly on overall growth of the economy before inflation turned it into dust. If he committed the blunder of investing it in the impoverishment of anyone else, would be investing in his own bankruptcy.”

Has this been badly machine-translated or something? Pseudomonas_(talk) 15:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

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