Aristotle (384-322 BC)

by Mark Blaug

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852784645
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/1991
Series:	Pioneers in Economics series , #2
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Edited by the late Mark Blaug, former Professor Emeritus, University of London and Professor Emeritus, University of Buckingham, UK

Table of 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’
Name Index