Economics, and distributive justice

See also Marxism and Aristotelianism and (on Austrian School theory) Libertarian Aristotelianism; general


Aubenque, Pierre (trans. Robert Heinaman), "The Twofold Natural Foundation of Justice According to Aristotle", in Heinaman, ed., Aristotle and Moral Realism, Westview Press, 1995.

Baeck, Louis, "The Mediterranean Trajectory of Aristotle's Economic Canon", in Michalis Psalidopoulos ed., The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays, Routledge, 2000 (reprinted from Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 76, 5-30, 1998).

Bien, Günther, "Die Aristotelische Ökonomik und die moderne Ökonomie", Dialogprogramm Wirtschaft und christliche Ethik: Texte, Dialoge, Materialien vol. 4: Ethische Implikationen der Ökonomie: Ökonomische Bedingungen der Ethik?, 1-34, 1989.

Bien, Günther, "Die aktuelle Bedeutung der ökonomischen Theorie des Aristoteles", in Bernd Biervert, Klaus Held & Josef Wieland eds., Sozialphilosophische Grundlagen ökonomischen Handelns, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1990.

Booth, William James, "Households, Markets, and Firms", in George E. McCarthy, Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity, Rowman & Littlefield, 1992. 

Booth, William James, Households: On the Moral Architecture of the Economy, Cornell UP, 1993.

Camacho, Francisco Gómez, "Later Scholastics: Spanish Economic Thought in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries", in S. Todd Lowry & Barry Gordon eds., Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, Brill, 1997.

Chan, Michael D. Chan, Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship, University of Missouri Press, 2006.

Drakopoulos, Stavros A., & Gotsis, George, "A Meta-Theoretical Assessment of the Decline of Scholastic Economics", History of Economics Review 40, Summer, 19-45, 2004.

Engberg-Pedersen, Troels, " Justice at a Distance - Less Foundational, More Naturalistic: A Reply to Pierre Aubenque", in Robert Heinaman, ed., Aristotle and Moral Realism, Westview Press, 1995.

Evangeliou, Christos, "Even Friends Cannot Have All Things in Common: Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Republic", Philosophia 25, 200-12, 1996.

Finley, M.I., "Aristotle and Economic Analysis", Past and Present 47:1, 3-25 (reprinted in Finley, Studies in Ancient Society, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, and in Jonathan Barnes, Malcolm Schofield & Richard Sorabji eds., Articles on Aristotle vol. 2: Ethics and Politics, Duckworth, 1977).

Foster, Susanne, "Virtues and Material Goods: Aristotle on Justice and Liberality", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71:4, 607-19, 1997.

Foster, Susanne, "Justice is a Virtue", Philosophia 31:3/4, 501-12, 2006.

Frank, Jill, "Democracy and Distribution: Aristotle on Just Desert", Political Theory 26, 1998, 784-802.

Frank, Jill, "Integrating Public Good and Private Right: The Virtue of Property", in Aristide Tessitore, ed. Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

Gordley, James, "Equality in Exchange", California Law Review 69, 1587-656 (reprinted in Richard O. Brooks & James Bernard Murphy eds., Aristotle and Modern Law, Ashgate, 2003).

Höffe, Otfried, "Vom Nutzen des Nutzlosen: Zur Bedeutung der Philosophie im Zeitalter der Ökonomisierung", Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53:5, 667-78, 2005.

Irwin, T.H., "Aristotle’s Defense of Private Property", in David Keyt & Fred D. Miller, Jr., eds., A Companion to Aristotle's Politics, Blackwell, 1991 (an earlier version appeared in Social Philosophy & Policy 4, 37-54, 1987 as "Distributive Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics").

Judson, Lindsay, "Aristotle on Fair Exchange", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 13, 1997, 147-75.

Keyt, David, "Aristotle’s Theory of Distributive Justice", in David Keyt & Fred D. Miller, Jr. eds., A Companion to Aristotle's Politics, Blackwell, 1991 (an earlier version appeared in Topoi 24, 23-45, 1985 as "Distributive Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics"). 

Keyt, David, "Injustice and Pleonexia in Aristotle: A Reply to Charles Young", in Timothy D. Roche ed., Aristotle’s Ethics, supp. vol. of The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 251-57, 1988.

Koslowski, Peter, Principles of Ethical Economy, Kluwer, 2000.

Koslowski, Peter, Politik und Ökonomie bei AristotelesMohr Siebeck, 1993 (3rd edn.).

Langholm, Odd, Price and Value in the Aristotelian Tradition: A Study in Scholastic Economic Sources, Universitetsforlaget, 1979.

Langholm, Odd, The Aristotelian Analysis of Usury, Universitetsforlaget, 1984.

Langholm, Odd, Wealth and Money in the Aristotelian Tradition: A Study in Scholastic Economic Sources, Norwegian UP, 1985.

Langholm, Odd, "The Medieval Schoolmen (1200-1400)", in S. Todd Lowry & Barry Gordon eds.,Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, Brill, 1997.

Langholm, Odd, The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power, Cambridge UP, 1998.

Lapidus, André, "Norm, Virtue and Information: The Just Price and Individual Behavior in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologica", European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 1:3, 435-73, 1994.

McNeill, Desmond, "Alternative Interpretations of Aristotle on Exchange and Reciprocity", Public Affairs Quarterly 4, 55-68, 1990.

Martins, Nuno, "Capabilities as Causal Powers", Cambridge Journal of Economics 30:5, 671-85, 2006.

Mathie, William, "Aristotle on Property", in Anthony Parel & Thomas Flanagan eds., Theories of Property: Aristotle to the Present, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 1979

Meikle, Scott, "Aristotle and the Political Economy of the Polis", Journal of Hellenic Studies 99, 57-73, 1979. 

Meikle, Scott, "Aristotle and Exchange Value", in David Keyt & Fred D. Miller, Jr., eds., A Companion to Aristotle's Politics, Blackwell, 1991 (reprinted in Meikle ed., Marx, Ashgate, 2002; an earlier version appeared in Journal of Hellenic Studies 99, 57-73, 1979).

Meikle, Scott, "Aristotle on Money", Phronesis 39:1, 26-44, 1994.

Meikle, Scott, Aristotle's Economic Thought, Cambridge UP 1995. 

Meikle, Scott, "Aristotle on Business", The Classical Quarterly 46:1, 138-51, 1996. 

Meikle, Scott, "Quality and Quantity in Economics: The Metaphysical Construction of the Economic Realm", New Literary History 31:2, 247-68, 2000. 

Murphy, James Bernard, The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory, Yale UP, 1993.

O’Brien, George, An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching, Batoche Books, 2001 (first pub. by Longman, Green & Co., 1920).

O’Connor, David K., "The Aetiology of Justice", in Carnes Lord & David K. O’Connor eds., Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science, University of California Press, 1991.

Pack, Spencer J., "Aristotle’s Difficult Relationship With Modern Economic Theory", Foundations of Science 13:3/4, 2008.

Piderit, John J., The Ethical Foundations of Economics, Georgetown UP, 1993.

Polanyi, Karl, "Aristotle Discovers the Economy", in Karl Polanyi, Conrad M. Arensberg & Harry W. Pearson eds., Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economics in History and Theory, Free Press1, 1957.

Popescu, Oreste, "Latin American Scholastics", in S. Todd Lowry & Barry Gordon eds., Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, Brill, 1997.

Popescu, Oreste, Studies in the History of Latin American Economic Thought, Routledge, 1997.

Scaltsas, Theodore, "Reciprocal Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics", Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 77, 248-62, 1995.

Shuchman, "Aristotle’s Concept of Contract", Journal of the History of Ideas 23, 257-64, 1962.

Shulsky, Abram N., "The 'Infrastructure' of Aristotle's Politics: Aristotle on Economics and Politics", in Carnes Lord & David K. O’Connor eds., Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science, University of California Press, 1991.

Soudek, Josef, "Aristotle's Theory of Exchange: An Inquiry into the Origin of Economic Analysis",Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 96:1, 45-75, 1952.

Springborg, Patricia, "Aristotle and the Problem of Needs", History of Political Thought 5:3, 393-424, 1984.

Staveren, Irene van, The Values of Economics: An Aristotelian Perspective, Routledge, 2001.

Theocarakis, Nicholas J., "Antipeponthos and Reciprocity: The Concept of Equivalent Exchange from Aristotle to Turgot", International Review of Economics 55:1-2, 29-44, 2008.