Aristotle (384–322 BC)

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Aristotle (384–322 BC)

9781852784645 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by the late Mark Blaug, former Professor Emeritus, University of London and Professor Emeritus, University of Buckingham, UK
Publication Date: January 1991 ISBN: 978 1 85278 464 5 Extent: 304 pp
Aristotle has rightly been called a ‘universal genius’. Whilst his work in economics was not fundamental, it has nevertheless attracted an enormous literature. This is particularly true of some passages in his ‘Politics’ on the ‘Natural’ and ‘Unnatural’ modes of acquiring wealth and some pages in his ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ on the question of justice in exchange. Aristotle’s views on the practice of usury and the doctrine of ‘just price’ have been heatedly debated from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Aristotle has rightly been called a ‘universal genius’. Whilst his work in economics was not fundamental, it has nevertheless attracted an enormous literature. This is particularly true of some passages in his ‘Politics’ on the ‘Natural’ and ‘Unnatural’ modes of acquiring wealth and some pages in his ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ on the question of justice in exchange. Aristotle’s views on the practice of usury and the doctrine of ‘just price’ have been heatedly debated from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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14 articles, dating from 1895 to 1985
Contributors include: W.J. Ashley, M.I. Finley, B.J. Gordon, E. Kauder, T.J. Lewis, S.T. Lowry, S. Meikle, S.J. Pack, K. Singer, J. Soudek, J.J. Spengler, S.T. Worland
Contents
Contents:
1. W.J. Ashley (1895), ‘Aristotle’s Doctrine of Barter’
2. J. Soudek (1952), ‘Aristotle’s Theory of Exchange: An Enquiry into the Origins of Economic Analysis’
3. E. Kauder (1953), ‘Genesis of the Marginal Utility Theory from Aristotle to the End of the Eighteenth Century’
4. J.J. Spengler (1955), ‘Aristotle on Economic Imputation and Related Matters’
5. K. Singer (1958), ‘Oikonomia: An Inquiry into Beginnings of Economic Thought and Language’
6. B.J. Gordon (1963), ‘Aristotle and Hesoid: The Economic Problem in Greek Thought’
7. B.J. Gordon (1964), ‘Aristotle and the Development of Value Theory’
8. S.T. Lowry (1969), ‘Aristotle’s Mathematical Analysis of Exchange’
9. M.I Finley (1970), ‘Aristotle and Economic Analysis’
10. T.J. Lewis (1978), ‘Acquistion and Anxiety: Aristotle’s Case Against the Market’
11. S. Meikle (1979), ‘Aristotle & Exchange Value’
12. S.T. Lowry (1979), ‘Recent Literature on Ancient Greek Economic Thought’
13. S.T. Worland (1984), ‘Aristotle and the Neoclassical Tradition: The Shifting Ground of Complementarity’
14. S.J. Pack (1985), ‘Aristotle and the Problem of Insatiable Desires’
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