ABSTRACT
Seeing among Aristotle’s Works a treatise on Œconomics, we might be led to hope that here at least we should not need to depend on hints from scattered passages. But, in the rst place, the treatise is not Aristotle’s, and, in the second, even if it were, it is devoted to domestic economy, not to economics in the modern sense of the word.1 We must gather Aristotle’s views as we gathered Plato’s; and we may take them for convenience under the same three heads, the view of Wealth, the view of Production and Distribution, and the view of Society and the State.
