Making Money in Ancient Athens
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Making Money in Ancient Athens
Leese, Michael
The University of Michigan Press
10/2021
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Hunger in their souls: profit and wealth maximization in Athenian thought
Introduction: Aristotle on chrEmatistikE.
Oikonomia as chrEmatistikE.
The good money-maker: a character sketch
Frugality and calculation
Risk, safety, and profit in economic decision-making
The insatiable hunger for wealth
Conclusions
Chapter 2: Making money in the oikos: strategies for diversification and profit
Timarchus' father Arizelos: a strategy of short and long-term profit
Demosthenes the Elder: profitable choices for long-term growth
Ciron: a diversified estate geared towards long-term growth
Stratocles: a balanced estate of high and low-risk properties
: the acquisition of cash-generating enterprises
Adeimantos' estate: craft production and cash crops
General patterns of diversification in ancient Greece
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Money-making strategies on specialized estates
Introduction: all your eggs in one basket
Nicias, Kallias, and long-term profit-maximization in silver mining
The silver rush in fourth-century BCE Athens
Lysias' father Kephalos: manufacturing, wartime profiteering, and an economy of scale?
Bankers: high-risk specialization and attempts to diversify
Diodotus: specialization in high-risk, high-profit moneylending
Conclusions
Chapter 4: Profit, Trust, and Deception in Ancient Greek Maritime Trade
Introduction
Price sensitivity, flexibility, and versatility in an uncertain trading world
Information networks to secure the greatest profits
A race against the clock: maximizing transactions to maximize profits
Crime does pay: breaking contracts and laws to make more money
Weak inter-polis contract enforcement: take the money and run
Contracts, friends, and family: protecting oneself on the open market
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Maximization in the Ancient Greek Economy
Introduction
Psychological impulses to maximize wealth in Greek thought
Broader patterns of wealth acquisition: unjust seizure of wealth
Diversity of personality types
Safety, honor, and social mobility: the benefits of wealth
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Hunger in their souls: profit and wealth maximization in Athenian thought
Introduction: Aristotle on chrEmatistikE.
Oikonomia as chrEmatistikE.
The good money-maker: a character sketch
Frugality and calculation
Risk, safety, and profit in economic decision-making
The insatiable hunger for wealth
Conclusions
Chapter 2: Making money in the oikos: strategies for diversification and profit
Timarchus' father Arizelos: a strategy of short and long-term profit
Demosthenes the Elder: profitable choices for long-term growth
Ciron: a diversified estate geared towards long-term growth
Stratocles: a balanced estate of high and low-risk properties
: the acquisition of cash-generating enterprises
Adeimantos' estate: craft production and cash crops
General patterns of diversification in ancient Greece
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Money-making strategies on specialized estates
Introduction: all your eggs in one basket
Nicias, Kallias, and long-term profit-maximization in silver mining
The silver rush in fourth-century BCE Athens
Lysias' father Kephalos: manufacturing, wartime profiteering, and an economy of scale?
Bankers: high-risk specialization and attempts to diversify
Diodotus: specialization in high-risk, high-profit moneylending
Conclusions
Chapter 4: Profit, Trust, and Deception in Ancient Greek Maritime Trade
Introduction
Price sensitivity, flexibility, and versatility in an uncertain trading world
Information networks to secure the greatest profits
A race against the clock: maximizing transactions to maximize profits
Crime does pay: breaking contracts and laws to make more money
Weak inter-polis contract enforcement: take the money and run
Contracts, friends, and family: protecting oneself on the open market
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Maximization in the Ancient Greek Economy
Introduction
Psychological impulses to maximize wealth in Greek thought
Broader patterns of wealth acquisition: unjust seizure of wealth
Diversity of personality types
Safety, honor, and social mobility: the benefits of wealth
Conclusions
Bibliography
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Ancient; Athens; Athenian; Banking; Behavior; Capitalism; Choice; Chrêmatistikê; Chrematistics; Commerce; Decisions; Decision-making; Economic Development; Economic; Economy; Greece; innovation; Investment; Lending; Maximization; Mentality; Mining; Money; Moneylending; Money-making; Oeconomia; Oikonomia; Premodern; Profit; Profit-Maximization; Rationality; Rational choice theory; Reinvestment; Strategies; Trade; Wealth-Maximization
Introduction
Chapter 1: Hunger in their souls: profit and wealth maximization in Athenian thought
Introduction: Aristotle on chrEmatistikE.
Oikonomia as chrEmatistikE.
The good money-maker: a character sketch
Frugality and calculation
Risk, safety, and profit in economic decision-making
The insatiable hunger for wealth
Conclusions
Chapter 2: Making money in the oikos: strategies for diversification and profit
Timarchus' father Arizelos: a strategy of short and long-term profit
Demosthenes the Elder: profitable choices for long-term growth
Ciron: a diversified estate geared towards long-term growth
Stratocles: a balanced estate of high and low-risk properties
: the acquisition of cash-generating enterprises
Adeimantos' estate: craft production and cash crops
General patterns of diversification in ancient Greece
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Money-making strategies on specialized estates
Introduction: all your eggs in one basket
Nicias, Kallias, and long-term profit-maximization in silver mining
The silver rush in fourth-century BCE Athens
Lysias' father Kephalos: manufacturing, wartime profiteering, and an economy of scale?
Bankers: high-risk specialization and attempts to diversify
Diodotus: specialization in high-risk, high-profit moneylending
Conclusions
Chapter 4: Profit, Trust, and Deception in Ancient Greek Maritime Trade
Introduction
Price sensitivity, flexibility, and versatility in an uncertain trading world
Information networks to secure the greatest profits
A race against the clock: maximizing transactions to maximize profits
Crime does pay: breaking contracts and laws to make more money
Weak inter-polis contract enforcement: take the money and run
Contracts, friends, and family: protecting oneself on the open market
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Maximization in the Ancient Greek Economy
Introduction
Psychological impulses to maximize wealth in Greek thought
Broader patterns of wealth acquisition: unjust seizure of wealth
Diversity of personality types
Safety, honor, and social mobility: the benefits of wealth
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Hunger in their souls: profit and wealth maximization in Athenian thought
Introduction: Aristotle on chrEmatistikE.
Oikonomia as chrEmatistikE.
The good money-maker: a character sketch
Frugality and calculation
Risk, safety, and profit in economic decision-making
The insatiable hunger for wealth
Conclusions
Chapter 2: Making money in the oikos: strategies for diversification and profit
Timarchus' father Arizelos: a strategy of short and long-term profit
Demosthenes the Elder: profitable choices for long-term growth
Ciron: a diversified estate geared towards long-term growth
Stratocles: a balanced estate of high and low-risk properties
: the acquisition of cash-generating enterprises
Adeimantos' estate: craft production and cash crops
General patterns of diversification in ancient Greece
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Money-making strategies on specialized estates
Introduction: all your eggs in one basket
Nicias, Kallias, and long-term profit-maximization in silver mining
The silver rush in fourth-century BCE Athens
Lysias' father Kephalos: manufacturing, wartime profiteering, and an economy of scale?
Bankers: high-risk specialization and attempts to diversify
Diodotus: specialization in high-risk, high-profit moneylending
Conclusions
Chapter 4: Profit, Trust, and Deception in Ancient Greek Maritime Trade
Introduction
Price sensitivity, flexibility, and versatility in an uncertain trading world
Information networks to secure the greatest profits
A race against the clock: maximizing transactions to maximize profits
Crime does pay: breaking contracts and laws to make more money
Weak inter-polis contract enforcement: take the money and run
Contracts, friends, and family: protecting oneself on the open market
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Maximization in the Ancient Greek Economy
Introduction
Psychological impulses to maximize wealth in Greek thought
Broader patterns of wealth acquisition: unjust seizure of wealth
Diversity of personality types
Safety, honor, and social mobility: the benefits of wealth
Conclusions
Bibliography
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Ancient; Athens; Athenian; Banking; Behavior; Capitalism; Choice; Chrêmatistikê; Chrematistics; Commerce; Decisions; Decision-making; Economic Development; Economic; Economy; Greece; innovation; Investment; Lending; Maximization; Mentality; Mining; Money; Moneylending; Money-making; Oeconomia; Oikonomia; Premodern; Profit; Profit-Maximization; Rationality; Rational choice theory; Reinvestment; Strategies; Trade; Wealth-Maximization
