Harris Plato and the Market By Edward Harris

https://www.academia.edu/144942341/Harris_Plato_and_the_Market?email_work_card=title This essay examines Plato’s discussion of the market in the second book of the Republic and is divided into two parts. The first part examines the features of the community sketched by Socrates and compares them with the evidence for the economy of the Greek world in the Classical period. The second part examines the features of the economy left out in Socrates' account and analyses the reasons why certain features of economic life are included and others omitted and relates these choices to the overall aims of the Republic. ...