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.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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 / méconnaissance
•  4  Conflicts and Cynicism
•  5  Concluding Remarks
• 3 The Most Ancient of Obligations: The Nature of Filial Duty
•  1  The Parent-Child Bond: A Paradigm-Case
•  2  The Debtor Paradigm of Obligation
•  3  The Gratitude Theory
•  4  The Gratitude Theory Analysed
•  5  Tensions in the Script: The Possibility of χάρις
•  6  Concluding Remarks
• 4 A Debtor Paradigm of Obligation: Principles of Moral Accounting
•  1  Moral Bookkeeping
•  2  Morality as Paying Debts
•  3  Debts, Gifts and Morality
•  4  Concluding Remarks: The Ledger under Taboo
• 5 Pricing the Invaluable: Socrates and the Proper Use of Friends
•   The Argument
•  1  Framing Socratic Conversation
•  2  False Friends, Part One: Utility, Ancient and Modern
•  3  False Friends Part Two: Economics, Ancient and Modern
•  4  Education and the Logic of Wage-Earning
•  5  Concluding Remarks: The Givenness of the Good
• 6 Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction
•   The Argument
•  1  Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavour
•  2  The Hunter Hunted: Role Reversals and the Paradox of the Hetaera
•  3  Desire Management
•  4  The Secrets of Love Magic
•  5  The Socratic Principle: Pay It Forward
•  6  Concluding Remarks: Language Games at the Market Frontier
• 7 Relational Economics: Aristotle on Value and Equivalence
•  1  Aristotle Discovers the Economy?
•  2  Equivalence
•  3  Value and Values
•  4  The Politics of Need
•  5  Concluding Remarks
• Epilogue: Hostile Worlds
• Bibliography
• Index.