GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE AND INFLUENCE OF GREEK ECONOMICS
Our conclusions as to the importance and influence of Greek economic
thought have been fully presented in the previous discussion. A brief
summary of the results, however, may be of advantage now, at the close
of our survey. As seen above, despite the fact that Greek thought in
this field was incidental to moral and political speculation, and
despite a certain philosophic prejudice and limited economic vision, the
contribution is by no means merely negative. We have seen that it
included a recognition by one or more Greek thinkers of such important
principles as the following: that society finds its origin in mutual
need, and in the natural development of clan and family, not in the
artificial social contract; that the state is a great business
association, in which about the same economic laws apply as in private
economy; that the final goal of economics is not property but human
welfare; that the criteria of economic value are intrinsic utility,
economic demand, and cost of production; that wealth must possess the
quality of storableness; that true wealth consists only of commodities
that minister to human welfare; that the three factors in production are
land, labor and capital; that money originated in necessary exchange;
that it serves as a medium of exchange, a standard of value, and a
ticket of deferred payments; that it should possess intrinsic value,
which is more stable than that of other commodities; that it should not
be confused with wealth, but should be understood in its true function
as representative wealth; that credit must play an exceedingly important
part in business operations as representative capital; that agriculture
is the basal industry, on which all others must depend; that the
division of labor is the fundamental principle at the foundation of all
exchange; that it results in certain important economic advantages, and
that its extensive application depends upon large commercial
development; that reciprocity is the fundamental principle in exchange,
as also in the social structure; that exchange performs a legitimate
social function in creating time and place values; that industrial
expansion is limited by a law of diminishing returns; that the primary
purpose of exchange should not be profit, but satisfaction of economic
need; that commerce merely for its own sake does not necessarily
increase the national store, but may produce only economic inequalities;
that extremes of wealth and poverty cause industrial inefficiency,
social strife, and crime; that excessive individual wealth is not
usually compatible with just acquisition or just expenditure; that it
also necessarily implies corresponding extremes of poverty; that the
commercial spirit in nations is the chief cause of international
differences; that the goal of economics is consumption rather than
production, and that foolish consumption results in great economic
waste; that all economic problems are moral problems; that private
property is not a natural right, but a gift of society, and therefore
that society may properly control its activities; that there is a
certain unity in human nature, which is opposed to the doctrine of
natural slavery; that the individual should have opportunity for
personal development in accord with his capacities, aside from the mere
struggle for physical existence; that true economic equality does not
demand equal shares for all, but shares proportioned to capacities and
services; and that gifts of charity merely for consumption are fruitful
causes of poverty and indolence.
Besides the recognition of such principles, we have seen that many
practical suggestions for the amelioration of economic and social
conditions, which are being seriously presented today, were first
proposed by Greek thinkers. Measures for the divorce of government from
big business, state control of natural monopolies, conservation of
natural resources, state supervision of trade and commerce, including
regulation of prices and rates, publicity in business, pure food laws,
and the socialization of industry and its products were all first
proposed by Greeks. On the other hand, we have seen that practically all
the modern stock arguments against socialism were long ago presented by
Aristotle, and that the ideal of the Greek socialist was not primarily
materialistic and selfish, as the modern, but moral and social.
Such a list of positive economic principles and practical suggestions
should surely give the Greeks some claim to recognition in the field of
economic thought. But they should be judged primarily, not by their
positive contribution to economic theory or by the practical nature of
their suggestions for legislation, but rather by the extent to which
they realized the existence of the great economic and social problems,
which are still crying for a solution. From this standpoint, we have
seen that Plato and Aristotle especially reveal remarkable economic
insight. Moreover, there still remains the outstanding fact that the
Greeks were the forerunners of the moral, humanitarian, and social
emphasis in present-day economy. This alone should give to them a
distinct place in the evolution of economic thought, and should make it
impossible for Souchon to conclude: “Ces mépris [of G. B. Say] sont pour
nous apparaître plus justifiés que les admirations de Roscher.”[1060]
The influence of Greek thought upon later economic theory, however,
seems not to have been very direct or extensive, probably owing to the
incidental nature of their speculation. To be sure, mediaeval economic
thought presents, in many respects, an unbroken continuity with the
Greek. In their emphasis on the moral, in their doctrines on usury, just
price, importance of agriculture, exchange for profit, and in their
general conservative attitude toward money and commercial development,
mediaeval thinkers are very similar to the Socratics.[1061] Doubtless
much of this similarity may be traced to the direct influence of
Aristotle, as is especially evident in the work of Thomas Aquinas and
Nicholas Oresme.[1062] To a considerable extent, however, the economic
ideas of the Middle Ages were a direct outgrowth of the economic and
religious conditions under which the writers lived.[1063] In the
following centuries, some Greek influence may be traced in Adam Smith,
in the physiocrats,[1064] in utopian writers such as More, and in
eighteenth-century thinkers like Rousseau.
It is usually asserted that the economic thought of the past century has
been practically unaffected by Greek ideas. But our previous discussion
has clearly shown that Plato and Xenophon, at least, dominated the
economic thinking of Ruskin. If further evidence is needed, it is
necessary only to turn to the names of Greek thinkers in the index to
the monumental new edition of his works, which we have frequently cited
above. He frankly and enthusiastically presents himself as an apostle of
a “Greek theory of economics.”[1065] But despite some of his utopian and
extravagant ideas, he is being ever more recognized by authorities in
economics as having been one of the chief factors in the development of
political economy to its present moral and humanitarian emphasis.[1066]
His repudiation of the abstract “economic man,” his insistence upon
human, moral, and social ideals in economics, his attempt to broaden the
definition of economic value and wealth by emphasizing true utility, his
constant stress upon proper consumption rather than upon production, his
demand that all have opportunity up to their capacity, his opposition to
the _laissez-faire_ policy in economics and politics, his emphasis upon
right education, all have borne rich and abiding fruit in the last few
decades, and these are all distinctively Greek ideas, as we have seen
above. Thus indirectly, through Ruskin, Greek economic thought has
exerted a potent influence upon the evolution of nineteenth-century
economics, and thus there is much truth in the words of Wagner, as
quoted by Oncken,[1067] not merely for German, but for all modern
economy: “Es ist im Grunde uralter wahrhaft classischer Boden, auf den
jetzt die deutsche ökonomische und soziale Theorie und Praxis sich
bewusst wieder stellen.” Souchon’s characterization of Greek economy as
“morale étatisme”[1068] could well be applied to much in the economic
thought of today.
Footnote 1060:
_Op. cit._, p. 195; Roscher is, of course, extreme in his
appreciation.
Footnote 1061:
Cf. Brants, _Les théories écon. au XIII et XIV siècle_; Espinas,
_Histoire des doctrines économiques_, pp. 72 ff.; Haney, _op. cit._,
pp. 69 ff.
Footnote 1062:
In his _De origine, natura, jure, et mutationibus monetarum_
(fourteenth century). On their dependence upon Aristotle, cf. Zmavc,
_Zeitschr. f. d. gesammt. Staatswiss._, 1902, pp. 54 and 77 f.; and
_Archiv f. d. Gesch. der Phil._, 1899, 407 ff.
Footnote 1063:
Cf. Souchon, pp. 199 f., who observes that the Greek moral goal was
perfection of the individual through the state, while that of the
Middle Ages was individual salvation to another world.
Footnote 1064:
Cf. Oncken, _op. cit._, p. 38.
Footnote 1065:
He calls Plato the “master of economy” (_Fors Clav._ [Vol. XXVIII,
717]); cf. also Vol. XXXVIII, 112 on his Platonic discipleship. He
says (_Arrows of the Chace_, Vol. XXXIV, 547): “The economy I teach is
Xenophon’s”; cf. also Vol. XXXVII, 550, Letter to Professor Blackie,
II: “My own political economy is literally only the expansion and
explanation of Xenophon’s.” Cf. Vol. XXXI, Intro., pp. xv ff.; Vol.
XVII, pp. xlix and 18; cf. his preface to his translation of the
_Economicus_; cf. also E. Barker, _Pol. Thought in England from
Herbert Spencer to the Present Day_ (“Home University Library”), pp.
191-96, who emphasizes this Greek influence. Cf. above, p. 23, n. 5;
64, n. 3.
Footnote 1066:
Barker, cited above, in n. 2, also emphasizes this fact. Cf. the
edition of Ruskin above cited, Introduction to Vol. XVII, an excellent
discussion of Ruskin’s economic ideas and their influence, for a
bibliography (p. cxii) and citations from many modern economists on
the subject; e.g., the notable address in 1885, in recognition of his
work, signed by a number of leading English economists; the striking
citations from Ingram; from Stimson (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_,
II [1888], 445), that the future political economy will make its
bricks for building “from Ruskin’s earth rather than from Ricardo’s
straw”; from the late regius professor of modern history at Oxford,
“The political economy of today is the political economy of John
Ruskin, and not that of John Bright or even of John Stewart Mill.”
Footnote 1067:
P. 46, n. 3 (Wagner, _Die Akad. Nat.-oek. und der Socialismus_, 1895).
Footnote 1068:
_Op. cit._, p. 201.
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The following bibliography includes: (_a_) histories of economic
thought; almost all of these have only a cursory chapter on Greek
theory, and several of them deal largely with economic conditions; (_b_)
histories of socialism and social theory, to which the foregoing
statement applies to a large extent; (_c_) chapters in works on
different phases of Greek economic history; (_d_) other works of a more
general type, which deal more or less extensively with Greek economic or
social ideas; (_e_) articles and dissertations; (_f_) editions of Greek
authors that are of special interest for our subject. It is manifestly
impossible to name many of these latter, and we shall content ourselves
with the mention of a few that have proved especially helpful. The works
are listed in alphabetical order, for greater convenience in reference,
and those of chief interest are starred.
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——. “L’art économique dans Platon,” _Revue des Etudes Grecques_, XXVI
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Hildebrand, B. _Xenophontis et Aristot. de oeconomia publico doctrinae
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published.
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made.
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too freely between ancient and modern socialism. Our citations are from
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die ges. Staatswissenschaft_, 1902, pp. 48-79.*
As stated, a large number of the foregoing list deal chiefly with actual
conditions, rather than with theory. Besides these, many other works on
phases of Greek economic history are cited in the course of our
discussion, the names of which, with page-references, may be found in
the index. All other works that are incidentally cited are also listed
there. For an excellent presentation of the political economy of John
Ruskin, and a selected bibliography on his work as a social and economic
reformer, cf. the Library Edition of his works, from which we have often
cited (George Allen, London, Introduction to Vol. XVII, 1905;
bibliography, p. cxii).
INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND AUTHORS
Acquisition, 25, 27, 29, 59, 66, 78, 88, 89, 90, 93, 105, 111-15, 128,
138, 144, 147. _See also_ Chrematistik; Exchange.
Adam, 36, 96, 151.
Adler, 55, 151.
Aeschines, 62.
Agriculture, 14 f., 18, 29 f., 31, 34, 38, 59, 63, 66-68, 79, 89-91,
93, 96, 114, 116, 128, 145 f., 148.
Alcaeus, 14.
Alcidamas, 17.
Alesio, 151.
Antisthenes, 65, 126, 131 f., 134.
Apollodorus, 91.
Aquinas, 148.
Ardaillon, 75.
Aristippus, 129.
Aristo, 141.
Aristophanes, 57, 66, 93, 119, 138.
Aristotle, 9, 12, 16, 17, 19, 21 f., 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 37, 39, 43,
44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 66, 67, 68, 69, 74, 75, 79,
81-124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 140, 142,
143, 147, 148.
Ashley, 113 f., 151.
Athenaeus, 133, 140.
Aulus Gellius, 52.
Barker, 9, 15, 16, 17, 84, 85, 90, 97, 98, 100, 101, 104, 105, 108,
110, 124, 130, 149, 151.
Barter, 35, 101, 106, 108, 113.
Bawerk, E. Boehm von, 106.
Bebel, 145.
Beloch, 9, 20, 45.
Bergk, 14.
Blanqui, 29, 48, 68, 82, 104, 151.
Boeckh, 9, 41, 47, 106, 134.
Bonar, 26, 28, 32, 36, 37, 48, 84, 90, 118, 134, 151.
Bright, 149.
Bryson, 126.
Bücher, 20.
Büchsenschütz, 65, 93.
Bussy, 48, 151.
Callicles, 16.
Callicratidas, 126.
Capital, 18, 30, 35, 47, 65, 67, 68 f., 91-93, 104, 117, 124, 137, 146.
_See also_ the Greek index for term.
Capitalism, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 40, 47, 62, 96, 106, 112.
Carlyle, 25, 44, 99, 101.
Caste system in Plato’s _Republic_, 37, 48 f.
Charetides, 91.
Chrematistik, 105, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 123, 124. _See also_
Acquisition; Exchange.
Christ, W., 63, 81.
Chrysippus, 141 f.
Cicero, 125, 126, 130, 139, 142.
Civic strife, 13, 25, 26, 54, 55, 62, 74, 78, 79, 87, 118, 144, 147.
Cleanthes, 141.
Clement Alex., 15, 140.
Cognazzi, De, 151.
Collectivism, 31, 61, 123, 124.
Columella, 91.
Commerce. _See_ Exchange.
Communism. _See_ Socialism.
Communism of family, 18, 54, 55, 56, 117, 120, 133, 140, 142, 143, 145.
Competition, 14.
Conservation, 30, 147.
Consumption, 27, 46, 68, 91, 92, 105, 113, 114, 137, 145, 147, 149.
Cope, 83, 93.
Cornford, 14, 18, 41, 53.
Cossa, 67, 82, 134, 151.
Crantor, 125.
Crates, 133, 138, 139.
Credit, 39, 105, 106, 146. _See_ the Greek index for term.
Croiset, 17, 63, 81.
Cynics, 16, 97, 103, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131-33, 134, 135, 136,
137, 139, 141.
Cyrenaics, 129, 130.
Decharme, 18.
Democritus, 15, 17, 23.
Demosthenes, 13, 45, 62, 66, 68, 69, 77 f., 105, 106, 114.
Dichaearchus, 143.
Diels, 15, 17.
Dietzel, 32, 57, 152.
Diminishing returns, 67, 146.
Dio Chrysostom, 13, 126, 130, 131, 132.
Diodorus, 145.
Diogenes, 131, 132 f., 138.
Diogenes Laertius, 17, 52, 100, 126, 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 139,
140, 141, 142.
Distribution, 12, 46 f., 51, 57, 74, 84, 102, 115-17, 118, 140. _See
also_ the Greek index for term.
Distributive justice, 102, 107.
Dobbs, 16, 25.
Doering, 69, 152.
Droysen, 45.
Drumann, 29, 57.
DuBois, 28, 35, 55, 82, 92, 104, 109, 114, 152.
Dühring, 71, 82, 101, 152.
Dümmler, 17.
Dunning, 130, 152.
_Economica_, 9, 14, 63, 69, 81, 94, 125, 126 f., 127-29, 131, 133.
Economic demand, 34, 64, 70, 72, 82, 83, 84, 86, 104, 108, 109, 110,
135, 146. _See also_ the Greek index.
Economy:
and asceticism, 12, 25, 60, 65, 131, 136, 137, 139;
and ethics, 10, 18, 21, 29, 63, 81, 90, 146, 148, 149;
domestic and public, 9, 63, 81 f., 111, 112, 113, 126, 146;
influence of Greek, 8, 146-50;
mediaeval, 39, 148;
modern, 8, 11 f., 27, 44, 115;
Ricardian, 8, 10, 11, 50.
Education, 50, 54, 95, 118, 121, 122, 149.
Eisenhart, 32, 152.
Ely, 11.
Ephorus, 143.
Epictetus, 133.
Epicurus, Epicurean, 52, 126, 129, 130.
Equality, 55 f., 60 f., 62, 79 f., 83, 109, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121,
145, 147.
Eryxias, 17, 103, 132, 133-37.
Esmein, 52.
Espinas, 9, 28, 29, 38, 43, 60, 61, 63, 65, 142, 148, 152.
Eudemian ethics, 81, 83, 87, 98, 107, 112, 120, 125, 128.
Eudemus, 127.
Euhemerus, 144 f.
Euripides, 17 f., 96, 136.
Exchange:
Greek attitude toward, 14, 32, 33, 41-45, 56, 59, 66, 70, 73 f., 77,
79, 82, 91, 92, 94, 105, 109, 110, 111-15, 116, 123, 128, 140,
143, 145, 147, 148;
regulations for, 43, 123;
theory of, 35 f., 38, 40, 41, 83, 84, 89, 102, 104, 106-110, 115,
119, 128, 146, 147.
_See also_ Chrematistik; Acquisition; and the Greek index for terms.
Ferrara, 152.
Fontpertuis, 64, 67, 68, 96, 152.
Francotte, 20, 29, 32, 55, 57, 62, 124, 134, 152.
Gernet, 45.
Gilliard, 14.
Glaser, 152.
Göttling, 152.
Gold, 15, 40, 54, 133, 137.
Gomperz, 17, 49, 131, 133, 137.
Grain supply, 45.
Grote, 13, 49, 152.
Grundy, 45.
Guiraud, 29, 37, 51, 52, 54, 57, 58, 69, 123, 152.
Hagen, 134, 152.
_Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaft_, 108.
Haney, 7, 11, 19, 20, 21, 35, 48, 71, 72, 82, 84, 89, 105, 110, 113,
119, 148, 152.
Harpocration, 68.
Hasbach, 130.
Hecataeus, 144.
Heidel, 125, 133, 134, 137, 152.
Hense, 137.
Heraclitus, 15.
Hermann, 43.
Herodotus, 19, 45, 63, 66.
Herzog, 152.
Hesiod, 14, 17, 30, 33.
Hesychius, 93.
Hierocles, 126.
Hildebrand, 153.
Hippias, 16, 17.
Hippodamas of Miletus, 15, 52;
the Pythagorean, 52.
Hippolytus, 52.
Hobbes, 16.
Hoderman, 126, 127, 134, 153.
Homer, 14, 52.
Horace, 129.
Individualism, 16, 56, 57, 75, 79, 119, 122, 130, 140 f., 142, 143.
Industry, 14, 29, 32, 35, 36, 47, 66, 69 f., 79, 90, 92, 95, 111, 116.
_See also_ Labor; Production.
Ingram, 7, 10, 72, 89, 104, 149, 153.
Interest, 31, 39 f., 59 f., 78, 92, 93, 105, 106, 148. _See also_
Capital; Capitalism; and the Greek index for terms.
Isocrates, 13, 66, 68, 77-80, 88, 106, 143.
Jackson, 108.
Jamblichus, 15, 52, 127.
Jambulus, 145.
Jesus, 26, 49, 87, 136.
Jowett, 60, 95, 114, 153.
Just price, 23, 107, 108, 140.
Kaulla, 65, 153.
Kautsky, 153.
Kautz, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 31, 48, 65, 67, 70, 72, 89, 107, 134, 153.
Knies, 153.
Koutorga, 106.
Labor:
attitude toward, 14, 17, 20, 29, 31-34, 37, 59, 69 f., 77, 79, 89,
91, 93-96, 116, 128, 132, 142;
division of, 19, 29, 33, 34-47, 38, 41, 70 f., 73, 79, 96, 145, 146;
in production, 18, 31, 47, 67, 83, 84, 96, 108, 110, 146. _See also_
Production; Laborer; and the Greek index.
Laborer, attitude toward, 47-50, 74, 101, 116, 117, 145.
Lamb, 18.
Land tenure:
in Aristotle’s state, 122 f.;
in Greece, 51;
in Plato’s _Laws_, 58 f., 62, 122;
in other writers, 133, 144.
Law, overestimate of, 13, 51, 56, 61, 75.
_Laws_, historical basis of Plato’s, 43 f.
Leisure, 29, 87, 94, 95, 101, 116. _See also_ the Greek index.
Lenormant, 72.
Liberality, 87, 121.
Loos, 153.
Lychophron, 16, 17, 119.
Lycurgus, 69, 140, 143.
Lysias, 45, 68.
Mabille, 153.
Macaulay, 103.
_Magna Moralia_, 81, 84, 87, 88, 125.
Malthus, 45 f.
Malon, 55.
Martiis, De, 52, 57, 153.
Marx, 84, 124.
Menger, 108 f., 153.
Mercantilism, 41, 72, 86, 103, 104.
Mesnil-Marigny, Du, 151.
Metrodorus, 127.
Meyer, 9, 20, 21, 106.
Mill, 8, 27, 50, 68, 85, 86, 92, 117, 149.
Mines, mining, 13, 66, 67, 74, 75, 128.
Money:
and wealth, 72, 86, 103, 104, 135, 137, 146;
attitude toward, 73, 106, 105, 140, 141, 145, 148;
function, 15, 38 f., 41, 84, 101 f., 103, 106, 108, 113, 115, 146;
history of, 35, 38, 101 f., 112, 146;
intrinsic value of, 40, 72, 102, 103, 104, 135, 137, 146;
materials, 40, 60, 72, 105, 129;
stability, 72, 104, 146. _See also_ Interest; Gold; Silver;
Mercantilism; and the Greek index.
Monopoly, 110, 129, 147.
More, 149.
Mueller, 143.
Mullach, 15, 125, 131, 132, 133.
Nationalism, 62, 124.
Nauck, 17 f.
Nearing, 40.
Nettleship, 37.
Newman, 17, 86, 89, 91, 97, 101, 103, 112, 114, 132, 153.
New Pythagoreans, 127.
Nic. Damasc., 143.
Oncken, 37, 48, 55, 129, 134, 140, 149, 150, 153.
Oresme, 148.
Paley-Sandys, 106.
Palgrave’s _Dictionary_, 104, 153.
Pericles, 12.
Periktione, 126.
Peters, 108.
Phaleas, 16, 53, 118, 120, 142.
Philodemus, 126, 127, 130.
Phintys, 126.
Photius, 52.
Physiocratic tendencies, 28 f., 30, 41, 89, 110, 140, 149. _See also_
Exchange; Production.
Pindar, 83.
Plato, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 22-62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70,
71, 74, 75, 78, 79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95,
96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 104, 106, 107, 108, 111, 115, 116, 118, 119,
120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136,
137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 144, 145, 148, 149.
Platon, G., 153.
Plutarch, 125, 126, 127, 140, 143 f.
Poehlmann, 7, 20, 21, 29, 32, 33, 36, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54,
55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 74, 75, 76, 101, 105, 106, 112, 117, 119,
120, 124, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 153.
Pohlenz, 53, 56, 57.
Pollux, 93.
Polybius, 143 f.
Population, 45 f., 59, 74, 115, 120.
Porphyry, 52, 126, 143.
Poverty, 14, 15, 27, 47, 48, 50, 55, 56, 59, 60, 74, 75, 78, 79, 87,
109, 115, 120, 130, 132, 133, 138, 139, 140, 144, 147.
Prices, regulation of, 43, 45, 47, 108, 110, 147.
Private property. _See_ Socialism.
Prodicus, 17.
Production, 27-37, 66-69, 74, 83, 88-93, 96, 146, 149. _See also_
Industry; Physiocratic tendencies; and the Greek index.
Profits, 46, 74, 109, 110, 116.
Protagoras, 17.
Publicity, 45, 60, 61, 147.
Pythagoras, 15, 52.
Quesnay, 89.
Rambaud, 153.
Rassow, 108.
Reciprocity, 34, 41, 96, 146.
Regnier, 153.
Ricardo. _See_ Ricardian economy.
Ritchie, 83.
Robin, 22, 27, 28, 37, 43, 52, 153.
Rodbertus, 20.
Roscher, 9, 18, 32, 72, 148, 153.
Rousseau, 131, 143, 149.
Ruskin, 9, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40,
42, 44, 45, 46, 55, 61, 63, 64, 67, 87, 92, 93, 95, 99, 100, 101,
105, 109, 110, 111, 135, 137, 138, 145, 149, 150, 154.
Salvio, 154.
Sappho, 14.
Say, 148.
Schaeffle, 112.
Schneider, 154.
Schoenberg, 11.
Schrohl, 134, 136, 154.
Schulte, 43 f., 154.
Seligman, 11.
Seneca, 130, 139, 141.
Sewall, 64, 83, 154.
Shorey, 18, 28, 36, 55, 56, 58, 62, 99, 154.
Silver, 40, 54, 65, 72, 133, 137.
Simey, 72, 134, 154.
Slavery, 16, 18, 21, 32, 37 f., 62, 67, 70, 86, 91, 92, 94, 95, 97-101,
123, 126, 128, 129, 132, 133, 142, 147.
Smith, Adam, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 64, 71, 75, 82, 86, 91, 92, 93,
115, 149.
Social contract, 15, 16, 22, 119, 130, 146.
Social origins, 22, 34, 119 f., 146.
Socialism and communism, 12 f., 45, 51, 53, 79, 147, 151;
in Aristotle, 96, 105, 118-24;
in Greece, 12 f., 51, 143;
in _Laws_, 58-62;
in _Republic_, 48, 49, 50, 54-58;
in Xenophon, 75 f.;
in other writers, 15, 52-54, 79 f., 130, 140 f., 142-45.
Socrates, 22, 26, 31, 57, 63, 67, 69, 73, 74, 129, 134, 136, 144.
Solon, 13, 14.
Sophists, 16, 17, 18, 22, 36, 73, 97, 111, 119, 130, 131, 142.
Souchon, 7, 10, 17, 31, 36, 37, 41, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 57, 62, 72, 82,
88, 89, 93, 104, 106, 123, 124, 141, 142, 143, 148, 150, 154.
Spencer, 35.
Speusippus, 125.
Stein, 55, 140, 154.
Steinhart-Mueller, 134.
Stewart, 83, 84, 92, 94, 95, 102, 107, 108, 116, 119, 154.
St. Hilaire, 81, 82, 154.
Stimson, 149.
Stobaeus, 15, 52, 126, 127, 130, 137, 139, 141.
Stoics, 16, 19, 125, 126, 127, 130, 134, 135, 136, 139-42, 143, 144.
St. Paul, 49, 120, 132.
Strabo, 132, 143.
Susemihl, 81, 89, 96, 127, 128.
Sussitia, 60, 117, 122 f.
Tariff, 41, 73, 110, 129.
Teles, 132, 133, 137-39.
Theocritus, 143.
Theognis, 14.
Theophrastus, 91, 125, 126, 127.
Theopompus, 144.
Thill, 154.
Thomissen, 154.
Thoreau, 12, 25, 26.
Thrasymachus, 16.
Thucydides, 10, 12, 18, 45, 66, 68, 69.
Timaeus, 52.
Trinchera, 154.
Usener, 130.
Utility, 22 f., 64, 65, 83, 88, 134, 135, 138, 146, 149.
Value, 22 f., 64 f., 82-84, 85, 96, 115, 134 f., 149. _See also_ the
Greek index.
Vanderkindere, 154.
Varro, 91.
Villeneuve-Bargemont, De, 152.
Vogel, 154.
von Arnim, 133, 139, 140, 141, 142.
Wages, 17, 46, 47, 74, 116.
Wagner (Pastor), 136.
Wagner, 150.
Walcker, 154.
Walker, 86.
Wallon, 97, 98, 154.
War, 25, 27, 36, 37, 66, 67, 70, 73, 79, 128, 147.
Wealth:
attitude toward, 15, 17, 18, 24-27, 48, 50, 55, 56, 60, 65 f., 77,
78, 79, 81, 86-88, 109, 125 f., 127, 129, 130, 131 f., 133-37, 138
f., 139 f., 141, 144, 146, 147;
defined, 24, 27, 65, 85 f., 91, 112, 133, 146, 149.
_See also_ the Greek index.
Wilhelm, 7, 127, 154.
Wolf, 57, 141, 154.
Xenocrates, 125, 126.
Xenophon, 9, 10, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25, 30, 38, 42, 46, 63-76, 81, 84,
89, 91, 96, 97, 111, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136,
138, 149.
Zell, 105.
Zeller, 15, 17, 32, 34, 48, 49, 52, 81, 97, 125, 127, 128, 129, 131,
132, 133, 139.
Zeno, 139 f., 141, 142, 144.
Zimmern, 9, 14, 29, 37, 38, 41, 43, 44 f., 45, 66.
Zmavc, 9, 81, 82, 84, 90, 104, 115, 124, 148, 154.
INDEX OF GREEK TERMS
ἀγοραστική, 40.
ἀδιάφορα, 125, 139.
αἰτίας, 28.
ἀλλαγή, 38, 39, 40, 41, 89, 106, 140.
ἀξία, 23, 64, 84, 86.
ἄπειρος, 25, 85, 112.
ἀπολαυστική, 40, 68.
ἀργύριον, 24, 72.
ἀσχολία, 66.
αὐτάρκεια (αὐτάρκης), 34, 112, 138, 144.
αὐτοπωλική, 40.
αὐτουργός, 18, 40, 89, 96.
αὐτόφυτον, 89, 113.
ἀφορμή, 68, 79, 92, 96, 106, 111, 131.
βάναυσος (βαναυσικαί, βαναυσία), 70, 93, 95, 113, 140.
δημιουργός, 23, 36, 48, 93.
διανομή, 115, 116.
διορθωτικόν, 102.
ἐγγυητής, 103.
εἰσαγώγιμα (ἐπεισαγωγίμων), 35, 110, 128.
ἔμπορος (ἐμπορική, ἐμπορία), 35, 41, 42, 73, 111, 113.
ἐνεργά, 69. (ἀργά, 68.)
ἐξαγώγιμα (ἐξαγομένων), 110, 128.
ἔρανος, 68.
ἐργασία, 66, 89, 90, 113.
εὐμεταχείριστον, 102.
θησαυρισμός, 85, 86.
ἰσότης, 56.
κάπηλος (καπηλική, καπηλεία), 35, 40, 41, 42, 78, 89, 111, 112, 113,
141.
κάρπιμα, 68.
κατά τὴν ἀναλογίαν ἴσον, 83.
κεφάλαιος, 30, 69.
κίβδηλος (ἀκίβδηλος), 42, 43.
κτήματα, 24, 64, 82, 85, 88, 138.
κτῆσις, 25, 65, 92, 125, 128.
κτητική, 28, 88, 111, 112, 113.
μεταβλητική, 40, 82, 111.
μισθαρνία, 89, 113.
ναυκληρία, 113.
νόμισμα, 38, 39, 84, 102, 103, 128, 133, 140.
νόμος, 16, 103, 119, 127, 142.
ξύμβολον τῆς ἀλλαγῆς, 102.
ὀβολοστατική, 105.
οἰκειατάτῃ, 91, 113.
οἰκονομική (οἰκονομία, οἰκονόμος), 9, 107, 111, 112, 114, 126, 128,
140.
ὄργανον, 86, 88, 91, 97.
παράστασις, 113.
πίστις, 68, 77, 106.
πλοῦτος, (πλούσιον) 24, 85, 112, 125, 127, 132, 135.
ποίησις, (ποιητική), 28, 69, 88, 92, 97.
πρᾶξις, (πρακτική), 69, 88, 92, 97.
στάσις, (διάστασις), 13, 25, 62, 87.
συμβλητά, 102.
συναιτίους, 28.
σχολή, 87.
τέχνη, 66, 93, 113, 145.
τίμη, 84.
τὸ ἴσον ἀντιπεπονθός (τὸ ἀντιπεπονθὸς κατ᾽ ἀναλογίαν), 96, 107, 121.
τόκος (τοκισμός), 39, 93, 105, 113.
φορτηγία, 113.
φύσις, 16, 36, 89, 96, 98, 106, 113, 127, 128, 131, 132, 142.
χρεία, 34, 82, 84, 102, 108.
χρήματα, 15, 24, 25, 28, 38, 64, 65, 84, 112, 134, 135, 137, 138.
χρηματιστική (χρηματιστής), 9, 26, 42, 73, 85, 88, 106, 107, 110, 111,
112, 113, 140, 141.
χρυσός (χρυσίον), 24, 72, 83.
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