A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[235]. 920A-B, 919D.

[236]. Laws 920C.

[237]. Zimmern (op. cit., p. 280, n. 1) calls it “grandfatherly.”

[238]. But cf. Robin, op. cit., p. 212, n. 1, who argues that many of his suggestions are based on actual legislation in Athens or elsewhere in Greece. Cf. also Hermann, Ges. Abh. (1849), pp. 141, 153, 159, whom he cites; J. Schulte, Quomodo Plato in legibus publica Atheniensium instituta respexerit (1907, dissertation), and the bibliography cited there. But he deals very little with Plato’s economic and social laws.

[239]. Plato saw that it might add a time and place value (p. 41, and notes).

[240]. Cf. above, p. [42], n. 7; also Fors Clav., Letters 45, 82; Crown of Wild Olive, II, 75 f. (Vol. XVIII, 450 f.). He argues that there should be no profit in exchange, beyond merely the payment for the labor involved in it. He insists that “for every plus in exchange there is a precisely equal minus.” Cf. infra on Aristotle for a similar idea, pp. 107 ff.

[241]. Op. cit., p. 278, n. 2; cf. above, pp. [42] f.

[242]. Cf. p. 43.

[243]. Ibid.

[244]. Ibid. Cf. Ruskin’s more socialistic idea that all retailers be made salaried officers (Time and Tide, XXI, 134 [Vol. XVII, 427]).