Cosmopoleis
Subtitle: empire and capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 18-045; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 18-045
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Description: Although scholars have often attributed the sentiment to the first-century Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus, during his exile by Nero to the Cyclades, it was instead the formulation of Baldo degli Ubaldi that resonated loudly and deeply in the commercial law of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Addressing the question of whether territorial lords could summarily expel foreign merchants from their lands, the famed fourteenth-century Italian jurist replied: "the world is the common fatherland of everyone (mundus est omnibus communis patria)", and thus merchants cannot be expelled without just cause and without what we would call "due process".
Notes: "November 2017." -- Publisher's website.