Economie van de Oudheid?

Moses Finley: mentaliteit in oudheid is anti-economisch
The Ancient Economy (1973):
… the citizen-élite were not prepared, in sufficient numbers, to carry on those branches of the economy
without which neither they nor their communities could live at the level to which they were accustomed.
The elite possessed the resources and the political power, they could also command a large personnel.
They lacked the will; that is to say they were inhibited, as a group (whatever the responses of a minority),
by over-riding values. (p. 60)