The Economics of Friendship —— Conceptions of Reciprocity in Classical Greece

----- 友谊经济学：古典希腊的互惠观念

ISBN: 9789004416130 出版年：2019 页码：547 Tazuko van Berkel Brill

In the economics of friendship, tazuko angela van berkel offers an account of the notion of reciprocity in 5th- and 4th-century greek incepting social theory. The preoccupation with the norms of philia and charis, conspicuous in sources from the classical period, is a symptom of changes in the shape of ancient economic activities: the ubiquitous norm that one should reciprocate benefit with benefit becomes a source of conceptual confusion in the classical period, where other forms of exchange become conceptually available. This confusion and tension between different models of mutuality, is productive: it is the impetus for folk theory in comedy, tragedy and oratory, as well as philosophical reflection (xenophon, plato, aristotle) on what it is that binds people together.