Joost Hengstmengel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joost Hengstmengel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joost |
| FAMILY NAME | Hengstmengel |
| SIGNATURE | HENGSTMENGEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4637-0878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Usury is not Usury.’ The Early Dutch Reformed Theological Debate on Interest (and What Can be Learned from It)
This article reconstructs early Dutch Reformed theological debates on usury from the late sixteenth century to the 1630s, culminating in Johannes Cloppenburgh's Christian Instruction on Usury (1637). Challenging the common assumption that Dutch reflection on interest began with Hugo Grotius, it demonstrates that theologians in the Dutch Republic had already produced a substantial body of work on usury decades earlier. Drawing on catechetical comm…
The Uneventful Reception of Mandeville’s Ideas in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, or the Mysterious Case of the Missing Outrage
The heated debates that Bernard Mandeville’s work inspired in Britain, France, and Germany are well-documented. No such account is available for the public reception of his ideas in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. This paper seeks to fill that void. Remarkably, his ideas did not cause much of a stir. Consequently, the paper explains the divergent pattern of response from the Dutch. It is argued that his ideas were either reverting to di…
The Rise of Dutch Neo-Calvinist Political Economy, 1830-1905
The years 1904-5 seemed to mark the birth of neo-Calvinist political economy in the Netherlands. It was then that three jurists affiliated with the Free University of Amsterdam, an institution founded by the theologian Abraham Kuyper, published their first economic writings. This article deals with the rise of neo-Calvinist political economy, which mirrored the emergence of Catholic economic thought that took place in precisely the same period, a…
The paradox of value in the teaching of the Church Fathers
The paradox of value is a classic puzzle in economics. It wonders why necessities are cheap while luxury goods are useless but expensive. Often Adam Smith is cited as the “inventor” of the paradox. Few economists seem to realise that it was voiced by numerous writers before. This article focuses on the Church Fathers, and discusses the role and interpretation of the paradox in their works. It argues that although these “theologians” did not take …
I am greatly obliged to the Dutch’
In the second half of the 18th century, Scottish Enlightenment philosophy spread to the Dutch Republic, where it found a favourable reception. The most popular Scottish philosopher among Dutch intellectuals arguably was James Beattie of Aberdeen. Almost all of his prose works were translated into Dutch, and the Zeeland Society of Sciences elected him a foreign honorary member. It made Beattie remark that he was ‘greatly obliged to the Dutch’, and…
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I am greatly obliged to the Dutch’
In the second half of the 18th century, Scottish Enlightenment philosophy spread to the Dutch Republic, where it found a favourable reception. The most popular Scottish philosopher among Dutch intellectuals arguably was James Beattie of Aberdeen. Almost all of his prose works were translated into Dutch, and the Zeeland Society of Sciences elected him a foreign honorary member. It made Beattie remark that he was ‘greatly obliged to the Dutch’, and…
The paradox of value in the teaching of the Church Fathers
The paradox of value is a classic puzzle in economics. It wonders why necessities are cheap while luxury goods are useless but expensive. Often Adam Smith is cited as the “inventor” of the paradox. Few economists seem to realise that it was voiced by numerous writers before. This article focuses on the Church Fathers, and discusses the role and interpretation of the paradox in their works. It argues that although these “theologians” did not take …
The Uneventful Reception of Mandeville’s Ideas in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, or the Mysterious Case of the Missing Outrage
The heated debates that Bernard Mandeville’s work inspired in Britain, France, and Germany are well-documented. No such account is available for the public reception of his ideas in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. This paper seeks to fill that void. Remarkably, his ideas did not cause much of a stir. Consequently, the paper explains the divergent pattern of response from the Dutch. It is argued that his ideas were either reverting to di…
The Rise of Dutch Neo-Calvinist Political Economy, 1830-1905
The years 1904-5 seemed to mark the birth of neo-Calvinist political economy in the Netherlands. It was then that three jurists affiliated with the Free University of Amsterdam, an institution founded by the theologian Abraham Kuyper, published their first economic writings. This article deals with the rise of neo-Calvinist political economy, which mirrored the emergence of Catholic economic thought that took place in precisely the same period, a…
‘Usury is not Usury.’ The Early Dutch Reformed Theological Debate on Interest (and What Can be Learned from It)
This article reconstructs early Dutch Reformed theological debates on usury from the late sixteenth century to the 1630s, culminating in Johannes Cloppenburgh's Christian Instruction on Usury (1637). Challenging the common assumption that Dutch reflection on interest began with Hugo Grotius, it demonstrates that theologians in the Dutch Republic had already produced a substantial body of work on usury decades earlier. Drawing on catechetical comm…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Historical Economic and Legal Thought (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)