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Greek Economics: The Ancient Edition
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:11 pm
by Philosophy Now
In his new column Peter Adamson wonders what the ancient Greeks had to say about economics.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/110/Gr ... nt_Edition
Re: Greek Economics: The Ancient Edition
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:37 pm
by Hobbes' Choice
Is PN going downhill?
This article is not about economics at all. In fact the most it says about it is;"Aristotle devoted no treatise to economics himself."
Given the renewed interest in the definition of money by the Modern Monetary Theory, due to the election of the new Labour leader, I was hoping to renew my interest in economics and thought to start from the beginning.
But Xenophon and Hesiod is all very well, what else might there be?
Obviously nothing from PN.
Re: Greek Economics: The Ancient Edition
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 4:34 pm
by spike
A quote from the article : "....money is not an end in itself."
It certainly is. It is the currency of the land. And the most important thing about it is that it circulate, like blood in the body, so to keep a nation vital and active.
Money matters is what brought about discipline and accountability, things that propel societies and keep them healthy and legitimate.