Social Justice in the Ancient World

K. D. IRANI is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City College of the City University of New York.MORRIS SILVER is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the City College of the City University of New York.

• PrefaceThe Idea of Social Justice: Its Forms and EvolutionThe Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient World by K. D. IraniSocial Justice and the Subsistence Economy: From Aristotle to Seventeenth-Century Economics by S. Todd LowryThe Origins of a Concept of Social Justice by Howard L. AdelsonArticulation of the Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient WorldKhremata: Acquisition and Possession in Archaic Greece by Thomas J. FigueiraImages of Justice in Early Greek Poetry by Gregory NagyJustice and the Metaphor of Medicine in Early Greek Thought by Marshall S. HurwitzSocial Justice in Ancient Iran by Farhang MehrSocial Justice in Ancient India: In Artha Sãstra by M. G. PrasadThe Practice of Social Justice in the Ancient World, The Ideological Basis for Social Justice/Responsibility in Ancient Egypt by Scott N. MorschauserSocial Justice in Early Islamic Society by Fereydoun HoveydaThe Idea of Social Justice in Ancient China by Thomas H. C. LeeSocial Justice and Reform in the Ancient WorldSocial Justice in the Ancient Near East by Raymond WestbrookSocial Reform in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R. FosterProphets and Markets Revisited by Morris SilverDemands for Land Redistribution and Debt Reduction in the Roman Republic by Richard E. MitchellSelected BibliographyIndes