1st Edition

Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece

By Takeshi Amemiya Copyright 2007
208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

24 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing the dearth of literature that has been written on this key aspect of economic history, Takeshi Amemiya, a well known leading economist based at Stanford University, analyzes the two diametrically opposed views about the exact nature of the ancient Greek economy, putting together a broad and comprehensive survey that is unprecedented in this field. Partly a piece of economic history,... Read more
Part I. History, Society, Culture 1. History 2. Society and Culture 3. Athenian Democracy 4. Was Athenian Democracy a Success? Part II. Economy 5. Modernist-Primitivist and Formalist-Substantivist Controversy 6. The Athenian Economy of the 5th and 4th Century Part III. Economics 7. Xenophon’s Economics 8. Plato’s Ethics 9. Aristotle’s Ethics 10. Plato’s Economics 11. Aristotle’s Economics 12. Utilitarianism

Biography

Takeshi Amemiya