Redistribution and Exchange

Plan

• 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
  • 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
  • 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
• IX. Local dealer: travelling merchant and trading skipper in Athens
  • 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

References

Reference:
Date: 1949
KPA: 31/15, 51-54 + 63-66