Nemesis: The Jouvenelian vs. The Liberal Model of Human Orders by C.A. Bond

Author:C.A. Bond [Bond, C.A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Nonfiction, History
ISBN: 9780648690511
Publisher: Imperium Press
Published: 2019-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

13 “In Greece, however, it was probably precisely the collapse of the earlier structure that led to the development of primitive money. The administrators of the redistributive palace economy needed to know how much barley the king needed, and how many sheep; how much or how many of each he would have to provide to each of the people dependent upon him, whether free or slave; but they did not have to make the calculation of how much barley was worth a single sheep. […] When the palaces had been burned and their far-flung bureaucracy dispersed, there will have been more need for exchange. The Homeric heroes did indeed have to weigh the value of a slave against the value of a tripod; if this seems to us a step toward the concept of money, it is not for that reason a sign of an expanding economy.” David M. Schaps, The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), 71.

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