commerce, feeling that to live by trade was adverse. The Romans borrowed their economic ideas from Aristotle and showed the same contempt for trade. During the Middle Ages, the economic ideas of the Roman Catholic Church were expressed in the canon law, which condemned usury (the taking of interest for money loaned) and regarded commerce as inferior to agriculture. In the 20th century a new appreciation has developed of Aristotle's method and its relevance to education, literary criticism, the analysis of human action, and political analysis (Brumbaugh, sec. 11)....
