Original sentence: 77, art.Aquinas believed that it was specifically immoral to raise prices because a particular buyer had an urgent need for what was being sold and could be persuaded to pay a higher price because of local conditions:.Aquinas would therefore condemn practices such as raising the price of building supplies in the wake of a natural disaster.If someone would be greatly helped by something belonging to someone else, and the seller not similarly harmed by losing it, the seller must not sell for a higher price: because the usefulness that goes to the buyer comes not from the seller, but from the buyer's needy condition: no one ought to sell something that doesn't belong to him.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.The just price was a medieval theory of ethics in economics which attempted to set standards of fairness in financial transactions.With the rise of banking and Capitalism, the just price theory began to be seen as discredited.— Theologia Moralis 2-2, q
Edited sentence: The just price was a medieval theory of economics which attempted to set standards of fairness in financial transactions.With the rise of banking and Capitalism, the just price theory began to be seen as discredited and remains so today