Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415149303
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9780203981702
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Series
Content:
This book explores the interrelationship between economic practice and religion, ethics and social structure in a number of ancient cultures, including studies of East Indian, Hebraic, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and emerging European cultures
Note:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I INDIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- 1 THE CONCEPTS OF HAPPINESS, ETHICS, AND ECONOMIC VALUES IN ANCIENT ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- INTRODUCTION -- HAPPINESS -- HOW TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS: ETHICAL SYSTEMS -- ECONOMICS AS A SUBSET OF ETHICS -- NOTES -- 2 KAUTILYA'S ARTHASASTRA -- INTRODUCTION -- RELEVANT TEXTS -- The economy -- The treasury -- Economic administration -- Salaries of (State) servants -- Rules and regulations -- Incentives and penalities -- Metholodogy -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Part II HEBRAIC ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- 3 LOOKING FOR OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR OF OUR PAST -- WITH WHAT DOES ECONOMICS COPE? THE CULTURAL LEGACY: A "SNAKE" UNDER THE RUG -- The Greek and the Hebraic legacy in broad terms -- An example of derivations from our cultural legacies -- The sin -- Interpreting the punishment -- ECONOMICS: ITS ASSUMPTIONS, PARADIGMS AND COROLLARIES -- The assumption of scarcity -- The assumption of uncertainty -- The Assumptions of utility and individualism -- The assumptions of verities -- Comments -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL TREATMENTS OF USURY -- Two levels of analysis: the theoretical and the "practical" -- The Jewish theoretical statements -- The Jewish practical approach -- The Christian approach -- Lessons to be drawn -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL RABBINIC ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHOSE ECONOMIC THOUGHT? -- WHAT DO WE MEAN BY (ANCIENT) ECONOMIC THOUGHT? -- TALMUDIC AND POST-TALMUDIC RABBINIC LITERATURE -- THE SCOPE AND THE METHOD OF THE INQUIRY -- TANNAITIC AND AMORAIC ECONOMIC CONCEPTS -- Interest, nominal and real, ex-post and ex-ante -- The search for an absolute standard of value -- Opportunity costs -- A mental experiment-compensating and equivalent variations
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BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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The general characteristics of Talmudic economics -- POST-TALMUDIC, MEDIEVAL THOUGHT -- POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON MAINSTREAM ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- TWO VOICES FROM THE RENAISSANCE -- NOTES -- Part III GREEK ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- 5 REFLECTIONS OF ANCIENT ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN GREEK POETRY -- GREEK ECONOMIC THOUGHT AS A PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL DOGMA -- Introduction -- The philosophical economics teachings -- Reconstruction of the Attic economy -- WEALTH, HANDIWORK, AND EXCHANGE IN THE MYTHICAL WORLD OF HOMER -- Homer as a source -- The environment of Homeric literature -- Craft -- Workers and slaves -- Household and wealth -- Exchange, reciprocity, distribution, and trade -- FROM HESIOD TO THE CLASSICS -- Hesiod and the world of the peasants -- Archaic lyric and educational literature -- Comments on Classical tragedy and the comedies of Aristophanes -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 6 GREEK ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- THE TRAJECTORY OF GREEK THOUGHT -- THE UNFOLDING OF TRADITIONS -- Thematization -- Textualization -- Institutionalization -- Canonization or canonicity -- Major strands of economic discourse -- THE MAIN SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT -- The genre of pragmatic essays -- The philosophic strands of thought -- Plato's asceticism -- Aristotle's analytical breakthrough -- The contribution of the Stoics -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF ISLAM -- THE IMPACT ON THE LATIN WEST -- NOTES -- 7 THE ECONOMY OF HELLENISTIC EGYPT AND SYRIA -- ANCIENT ECONOMIES AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN GREEK ANTIQUITY -- ARCHEOLOGY AND THE ECONOMY OF HELLENISTIC EGYPT -- ARCHEOLOGY AND THE ECONOMY OF SELEUCID SYRIA -- NOTES -- Part IV ROMAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- 8 THE CLASSICAL ROOTS OF BENEVOLENCE IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT -- THE GREEK BENEFACTORS -- DIFFERENT TYPES OF BENEFITS -- THE ROMAN APPROACH -- PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- 9 ASSUMPTIONS, ECONOMICS, AND THE ORIGINS OF EUROPE -- NOTES
Additional Edition:
Print version Price, Betsy Ancient Economic Thought Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1997 ISBN 9780415149303
Language:
English
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