Price Ancient Economic Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-1-134-82449-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book explores the interrelationship between economic practice and religion, ethics and social structure in a number of ancient cultures, including ancient East Indian, Hebraic, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and emerging European cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Betsy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I. Indian Economic Thought

1. S. Ambirajan The Concepts of Happiness, Ethics and Economic Values in Ancient Economic Thought

2. Kishor Thanawala Kautilya's 'Arthasastra': A Neglected Work in the History of Economic Thought

Part II. Hebraic Economic Thought

3. Mark Perlman Looking for Ourselves in the Mirror of Our Past

4. Ephraim Kleiman Ancient and Medieval Rabbinic Economic Thought: Definitions, Methodology and Illustrations

Part III. Greek Economic Thought

5. Bertram Schefold

Aristotle as a Systematizer of Earlier Greek Ideas on Economics

6. Louis Baeck Greek Economic Thought: Initiators of Mediterranean Tradition

7. Murray McClellan The Economy of Hellenistic Egypt and Syria

Part IV. Roman Economic Thought

8. Gloria Vivenza Classical Roots of Benevolence in Economic Thought

9. Alan Samuel Assumptions, Economics and the Origins of Europe