ABSTRACT
The civil economy emerged both as a reaction to the interpretations of Aquinas’s ideas made during the counter-reformation and as a continuation of Aquinas’s economic teachings based on naturaliter homo homini amicus est. Antonio Genovesi, founder of the Neapolitan school of civil economy, was deeply influenced by Aquinas’s theological, anthropological, and social teachings. This influence is directly reflected in his economic views, which see markets as places of mutual assistance at the national and international levels.
