You're absolutely correct. I had already thought to put the idea of the
Greek root of economics in the early section of the the evolution of the idea
of the economy.
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> > 1. Notice how the concept of households as an agent of production and
> > as an agent of consumption obscures the role of class.
>
> This was not always true. If you examine the "household" in the
> Homeric world (see M.I. Finley, *The World of Odysseus*)
> it is mostly by examining the internal structure of households
> (*oikoi* -- the greek root whence "economics") that class
> lines may be discerned. Don't know whether this is of any
> use to you -- except it might underline the historicity of
> "economic" formations.
>
> Carrol
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