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Giles of Lessines (died c. 1304) was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas^[1]. He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus^[2]. He was an early defender of Thomism^[3].

He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic doctrine, on usury^[4] and market prices^[5].

Notes

1. ^ History of Medieval Philosophy 313
2. ^ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
3. ^ Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School
   
   
4. ^ Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time
5. ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics