Household and Market

On the Origins of Moral Economic Philosophy

Bibliographic Data

ID6402138
AuthorsWilliam James Booth (corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume56
Issue2
Pages207-235
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670500018416
OpenAlexW2116816447
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited26

This article explores a neglected area in political philosophy and moral economic theory: the origins of normative economic theorizing in classical Greek philosophy. That theory is a critique of the market and the acquisitive life in light of an alternative location of the economy in theoikosor household oriented towards the securing of the good life. Its core elements of the well-ordered community, the good life, and of the foreignness of economic activity to these ends are analyzed here. The article concludes with a critical appraisal of this theory, and an examination of its value for political philosophers concerned to find a non-rights based approach to the economy

Core (optical fiber · Critical appraisal · Economics · Epistemology · Moral philosophy · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · The good life · Value (mathematics · Value theory · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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