Juan de Mariana. Transmisión de las ideas de economía política de España hacia Inglaterra en el siglo XVII

Abstract

The Spanish scholastics of the XVI and XVII centuries were the first intellectuals who got to identify adequately the principles of economic performance and the institutions that characterize the market order (or economic order) and that boost the creation of open societies. Later on, their ideas influenced and have been reflected in the works of later authors in Europe and America.

The scholastic influence on later writers can be found, in a particularly intense way, in the Jesuit author Juan de Mariana, since his works were well known in the XVII century and, in fact, were widely persecuted by the political order, due to his maximum defense of institutions as the private property, the people's sovereignty transferred in trust to the King, the principle of consent and, in general, the importance of the subjective rights of citizens against the reason of State and against the tyrants, which are the principles of constitution of an open society.

This academic paper studies the documentary evidences on the knowledge in England during the XVII century with regards to the institutional ideas of the Spanish scholastic Juan de Mariana and, additionally, explains the influ-ence of his work De Rege et Regis Institutione (1599) on the ideas of political economy which are also present in the work Two Treaties on Civil Government (1690) written by the English moral philosopher John Locke.