English Summa prints just-price and theft questions as limits on market extraction
The English Summa’s justice questions print commutative justice, just price, and theft, a completed scholastic limit on charging what a captive buyer must pay. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Income Inequality.
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The English Summa’s justice questions print commutative justice, just price, and theft, a completed scholastic limit on charging what a captive buyer must pay. It can protect and can also bless a ‘just’ hierarchy.
Context
Twin of the usury-exception row. Medium confidence on later welfare size.
Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Thomas Aquinas
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.28 · verified
Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactEnglish Summa prints just-price and theft questions as limits on market extraction
- weakensDriverIncome Inequality
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1920 · verified
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers)New Advent / Kevin Knight · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorThomas Aquinas
- contributed toFactEnglish Summa prints just-price and theft questions as limits on market extraction
- weakensDriverIncome Inequality
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Factrail. (2026). English Summa prints just-price and theft questions as limits on market extraction. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-just-price
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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