A History of Greek Economic ThoughtTrever, Albert Augustus
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A History of Greek Economic Thought
Trever, Albert Augustus
Economics -- Greece -- History; Thesis (Ph. D.)
Xen. _Mem._ iii. 4. 6 ff., especially 12; _Econ._ xx; Plato _Pol._ 259
B-C; cf., on this passage, Espinas, _Revue des Etudes Grecques_, XXVII
(1914), 105; cf. Ruskin: “Economy no more means saving money than it
means spending money. It means the administration of a house” (_A Joy
Forever_, I, 8, Allen ed., London, 1912, Vol. XVI, 19). We shall
frequently quote from this monumental edition of Ruskin.
Footnote 6:
_Pol._ i. 1. 2: ὅσοι μὲν οὖν οἵονται πολιτικὸν καὶ βασιλικὸν καὶ
οἰκονομικὸν καὶ δεσποτικὸν εἶναι τὸν αὐτόν, οὐ καλῶς λέγουσιν.
Footnote 7:
_Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle_, p. 357; cf. Zmavc,
_Zeitschr. f. d. gesammt. Staatswissenschaft_, 1902, pp. 59 f., and
his references to Boeckh, Meyer, and Beloch; Kautz, _Die Gesch. d.
Entwickelung der National Ökonomik_, p. 133, n. 5; for note on the
authorship of the _Revenues_, cf. _infra_, p. 63, n. 2.
Footnote 8:
Ingram, _History of Political Economy_, p. 12; cf. Souchon, _Les
Théories économiques dans la Grèce antique_, p. 34.
Footnote 9:
Cf. Souchon, _op. cit._, pp. 31 ff.
Footnote 10:
Cf. V. Brants, _Xenophon Economiste_, reprint from _Revue Catholique
de Louvain_, 1881, pp. 4 ff.
Footnote 11:
Ely, _Studies in Historical and Political Science_, 2d series, pp. 48
ff., especially p. 64, where he states that it is a return to the
Greek view.
Footnote 12:
Ely, _Outlines of Economics_, 1908, pp. 4 ff.; cf. Seligman,
_Principles of Economy_, (1905), pp. 4 ff., especially p. 14, where he
even quotes the sentences of Ruskin with approval: “There is no wealth
but life”; “Nor can anything be wealth except to a noble person”
(_Unto This Last_, IV, 77 [Vol. XVII, 105]). All citations will be
from the Allen library edition unless otherwise stated.
Footnote 13:
Schoenberg, _Handbuch der polit. Econ._ (1890), I, 56.
Footnote 14:
Haney, _History of Economic Thought_, p. 52; cf. Ely, _op. cit._, p.
48, n. 1, cited in n. 1, above, for a similar definition based on
Plato.
Footnote 15:
Kautz (_op. cit._, p. 57) goes to the extreme of saying that antiquity
represents “die Negation der ökonomischen Interessen und der
wirtschaftlichen Arbeit.”
Footnote 16:
Even abolition of debts and redivision of lands were not unknown in
Greek history. Grote (_History of Greece_, III, 105 f. and notes)
denies this, but the heliastic oath, which he cites (Dem. _Adv.
Timoc._ 746, and Dio Chrysost. Or. xxxi. 332), proves that such
measures were agitated, or there would be no reason for protective
measures. Cf. _infra_, Plato (_Laws_, 736E), who takes this for
granted. Cf. Solon’s Fragments; Isoc. (_Panath._ 259) says that it
would be hard to find a Greek state, except Sparta, that has not
fallen into “the accustomed accidents,” viz., στάσιν, σφαγάς, φυγὰς
ἀνόμους, ἁρπαγὰς χρημάτων, χρεῶν ἀποκοπάς, γῆς ἀναδασμόν, etc.
Footnote 17:
Cf. _infra._ for citations and qualifications.
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