Open Access<i>Oikos</i> and Economy
Author(s) -
Gregory Cameron
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
phaenex
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1911-1576
DOI - 10.22329/p.v3i1.281
Subject(s) - greeks , relation (database) , trace (psycholinguistics) , term (time) , economics , neoclassical economics , positive economics , classical economics , economy , mathematical economics , economic history , philosophy , financial economics , linguistics , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
Amongst historians of economics it is generally assumed that while the term economics derives from the Greek term oikonomikos—the theory of household management—the ancient Greeks did not develop what we call economics. This paper traces the relation between the Greek term and the modern—a relation which is generally said not to exist. The paper is a critical theoretical attempt to begin to trace the underlying assumptions of modern economic theory as well as the more general question of the legacy of ancient Greece on the modern world.