... different conceptualization of economics as a rational, although not scientific, theoretical and practical knowledge. This knowledge, called oikonomia, is specific both with regard to its constituent practices as well as what it means for humans to pursue the collective satisfaction of their needs. slavery...

... oikonomia. Focusing mostly on the management of the household (oikos) and sometimes that of the city-state or polis, this form of knowledge concerns the management of material goods and persons at the intersection of technical considerations and notions of value. This dual dimension of oikonomia challenges...

.... They try to figure out to what kind of knowledge and rationality oikonomia belongs. Unlike modern economics understood as a scientific knowledge, they suggest oikonomia belongs to a philosophical rationality at the crossroad of theoretical and practical concepts and issues. agriculture agricultural work...

...As a complement to the previous one, and with a view to better contrast modern economics and ancient oikonomia, this chapter examines the dual nature of oikonomia as it is expressed in two intensely debated questions in ancient Greek economic theoretical thought. First, is the management...