Redistribution and Exchange
- Introduction
- 1) Oikos controversy
- 2) Two meanings of economic
- 3) Formal and institutional terms
- 4) Debt and treasure in primitive society
- 5) The uses of money
- 6) Trade and traders
- 7) Market elements
- 8) Reciprocity, redistribution and exchange
- I. Trade and money in Babylonia
- 1) Trading in the gates
- 2) Sumerian temple economy
- 3) Silver and harley
- 4) Metrological systems
- 5) Fungible and specific goods
- 6) Temple post investment
- 7) Business life
- 8) Tithe, rent and interest
- II. Hesiod: “The Gods have hidden the livelihood of Man”
- 1) Loosening of the clan: tie in archaic Greece
- 2) The fear of individual starvation
- 3) Work, thrift, contract, householding, economic debt, acquisition
- 4) Peasant philosophy
- 5) Class struggle
- 6) Concept of the economic
- III. Debt Bondage crisis in Greece, Israel and Rome
- IV. Treasure, tyrannis and agora
- 1) Thucydides on treasure and politics
- 2) Circulation of treasure among the elite
- 3) Tax farming and contracting: Dinias, Tharon, Phalaris, Demaratus, The Alkmeonides
- 4) Mobilizing tribal and manorial labour
- 5) Public services organized by ‘privates’
- 6) Personnel, function, achievement and passing of the new monarchy in Greece
- 7) The farming out of the public services in the democracy
- 8) Public monopoly of coinage, market and trade regulation
- 9) The tribal inheritance: Warrior guild and peasant democracy
- V. Damkar, metic and burgess
- 1) Temple and ‘king’s merchant’
- 2) The public broker
- 3) External, internal and local trade
- 4) Wealth and status in trade
- 5) Carrier people, on land and sea
- 6) Collective external trading
- 7) Citizen capitalist and metic trader
- VI. Specific branches of trade
- 1) Slave
- 2) Corn[1]
- 3) Oil, vine, fish, salt
- 4) Gold, silver, copper, tin and land
- 5) Stone, timber, hides and other raw materials
- 6) Manufactured articles: such as pottery, textiles & metals ware
- VII. Staple finance / Forms of finance: treasure staple and money[2]
- 1) Staple planning: collecting, storing, accounting, distributing
- 2) Public staple finance (army, public services, bureaucracy, allies, expeditions, foreign trade, public works, war)
- 3) Irrigation, yields, official equivalents, metrology
- 4) Minor circulation (subordinate use of markets)
- 5) Loaning to privates (Tithes, rent and interest)
- 6) Staple banking operations
- VIII. Polis and chora
- 1) Aristotle on self sufficiency
- 1a) Types of poleis
- 2) Synoecism and religious community
- 3) Redistributive methods and market discipline
- 4) Hellenic economies: Greece, Egypt and Rome
- 5) The role of market elements in the organization of trade and finance in antiquity
- 1) Aristotle on self sufficiency
- IX. Local dealer: travelling merchant and trading skipper in Athens [3]
- 1) Metic trade
- 2) The Greeks and the ‘Greek speaking’ trade
- 3) Sea loan and money lending
- 4) Agora and Emporion
- 5) From archaic chieftains trade to the exploitation of metic trade
- 6) Behaviour in the agora
- X. Capitalism in antiquity
- Memoranda:
- I.Palace and Temple economy in ancient Israel
- II. Auction, booty-sale and financial wizardry in Classical Greece
- III. Administrative economy and market function in native Dahomey
Reference:
Date: 1949
KPA: 31/15, 51-54 + 63-66
- ↑ Also in The Livelihood of Man, chapt. 14]]
- ↑ Les deux titres divergent entre la page 63 et 65
- ↑ This chapter isn't listed p. 63 and “Capitalism in antiquity” is in ninth position.