A History of Greek Economic ThoughtUniversity of Chicago Press, 1916 - 162 頁 |
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¹ Cf ¹ Pol acquisition Adam Smith agriculture Antisthenes Areop Aristotle Aristotle's artisans arts Athens attitude Barker basal capital chap cited citizens classes Clav commerce common criticism Cynics demand Diog discussion division of labor doctrine Econ economic ideas economists emphasizes equality Eryxias especially Espinas ethical evil excessive wealth extreme fact false finance Francotte Greece Greek economic thought Greek thinkers Guiraud Haney Hesiod Ibid ideal importance individual industry infra interest Isocrates Kautz land Laws limited means merely modern socialistic money-making moral natural Nicocl nomic notes opposed passage philosophers physiocrats Plato Poehlmann political poverty principle private property problem production recognized Republic retail trade Ruskin slavery slaves Socratics Souchon standpoint Stob Stoics theory Thucydides Unto This Last Xenophon XVII Zeller Zmavc γὰρ δὲ εἶναι ΙΟ καὶ κατὰ μὲν μὴ πρὸς τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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第 92 頁 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
第 91 頁 - From the individual's standpoint, wealth used as capital means ' that part of a man's stock which he expects to afford him revenue
第 26 頁 - I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then; thou hast the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time write: 'It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.
第 9 頁 - Economy, no more means saving money than it means spending money. It means, the administration of a house; its stewardship; spending or saving that is, whether money or time, or anything else, to the best possible advantage.
第 93 頁 - In some countries the interest of money has been prohibited by law. But as something can everywhere be made by the use of money, something ought everywhere to be paid for the use of it. This regulation, instead of preventing, has been found from experience to increase the evil of usury; the debtor being obliged to pay, not only for the use of the money, but for the risk which his creditor runs by accepting a compensation for that use. He is obliged, if one may say so, to insure...
第 11 頁 - If one could conceive of Plato making a definition of economics, one might imagine it would run somewhat as follows : "Economics is the science which deals with the satisfaction of human wants through exchange, seeking so to regulate the industries of the state as to make its citizens good and happy and so promote the highest well-being of the whole.
第 11 頁 - Love, generosity, nobility of character, self-sacrifice, and all that is best and truest in our nature have their place in economic life.
第 148 頁 - ... legislation, but rather by the extent to which they realized the existence of the great economic and social problems, which are still crying for a solution. From this standpoint, we have seen that Plato and Aristotle especially reveal remarkable economic insight. Moreover, there still remains the outstanding fact that the Greeks were the forerunners of the moral, humanitarian, and social emphasis in present-day economy. This alone should give to them a distinct place in the evolution of economic...
第 105 頁 - Athens the circulation of capital was • inconsiderable, and money was not lent for productive purposes as often as for the purpose of relieving distress. If to-day loans were chiefly made to embarrassed friends or neighbors to be used in alleviating distress in matters of consumption, we too would • undoubtedly regard interest in a different light.
第 11 頁 - ... sensible men, whereas not long since doctrines and measures were attributed to them, which would lead one to suppose it necessary to go back only two hundred years to discover man with a caudal appendage. The advanced economists have, too, infused a new spirit and purpose into our science. They have placed man as man, and not wealth, in the foreground, and subordinated everything to his true welfare.