The economics of friendship : : conceptions of reciprocity in classical Greece / / by Tazuko Angela van Berkel.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; Volume 429
• VerfasserIn: Berkel, Tazuko Angela van, 1979-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; Volume 429.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: 1 Introduction: The Economics of Friendship -- 1 Friendship: Money Can’t Buy It? -- 2 Φιλια -- 3 An Economic Mentality -- 4 Apparatus and Argument -- 2 Grace under Pressure: The Anatomy of χάρις -- The Argument -- 1 Three Cases of Isomorphism -- 2 χάρις and Successful Interaction -- 3 Perception and /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004416145
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Tazuko Angela van Berkel.

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.