ABSTRACT
It would appear that the present values informing economics are actually values of great vintage that trace their way back to our ancient texts and treatises. Likewise, the law, apparently, is a thicket of incomprehensible language, access to which is confined only to the learned, and kept securely away from the polluting grasp of the unwashed and the illiterate, even as knowledge in our days of old was the exclusive preserve of the wise and the pure. These themes are explored in what follows.
