Table of Contents

Preface The Idea of Social Justice: Its Forms and Evolution The Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient World by K. D. Irani Social Justice and the Subsistence Economy: From Aristotle to Seventeenth-Century Economics by S. Todd Lowry The Origins of a Concept of Social Justice by Howard L. Adelson Articulation of the Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient World Khremata: Acquisition and Possession in Archaic Greece by Thomas J. Figueira Images of Justice in Early Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy Justice and the Metaphor of Medicine in Early Greek Thought by Marshall S. Hurwitz Social Justice in Ancient Iran by Farhang Mehr Social Justice in Ancient India: In Artha Sãstra by M. G. Prasad The Practice of Social Justice in the Ancient World, The Ideological Basis for Social Justice/Responsibility in Ancient Egypt by Scott N. Morschauser Social Justice in Early Islamic Society by Fereydoun Hoveyda The Idea of Social Justice in Ancient China by Thomas H. C. Lee Social Justice and Reform in the Ancient World Social Justice in the Ancient Near East by Raymond Westbrook Social Reform in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R. Foster Prophets and Markets Revisited by Morris Silver Demands for Land Redistribution and Debt Reduction in the Roman Republic by Richard E. Mitchell Selected Bibliography Indes

About the Author

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.