Name Raymond Roover Role Novelist | Education University of Chicago | |
Died March 21, 1972, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Rise and Decline of the Medic, The Medici Bank, Money - Banking and Credi, Business - Banking - and Econ, San Bernardino of Siena | ||
Raymond Adrien de Roover (1904–1972) was a noted economic historian of medieval Europe, whose scholarship explained why Scholastic economic thought is best understood as a precursor of, and wholly compatible with, Classical economic thought. In his day, many economists such as R.H. Tawney taught that Karl Marx was the last of, and culmination of, the Scholastic economists. De Roover taught at Harvard University, University of Chicago, Boston College, and Brooklyn College in The City University of New York, in addition to various European universities, and was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1949.
De Roover and his wife appear as minor characters in The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, a novel by the American Novelist Harry Mathews. (The novel is in part concerned with the Medici.)