Genesis
This handy helper joins Adam in the Garden of Eden in Chapter 2 of Genesis.
Who is Eve?
That which benefits a man.
What is property?
Families come together to make villages. Villages come together to make this kind of community.
What is a city?
The cause of the greatest improvement in labor productivity
What is the division of labor?
The complicated relationship of these two brothers is the subject of Chapter 4 of Genesis.
Who are Cain and Abel?
Socrates keeps this economic advantage in the form of friends.
What is a surplus?
This vicious practice makes a gain out of money itself!
What is usury?
When a man acts with a view to his own interest, yet ends up supporting the common good, he is said to be led by this force.
What is the invisible hand?
The Lord granted man with this power over the rest of Creation.
What is dominion?
What all men (including Ischomachus' father) naturally love.
What is profit?
Aristotle says that the state is a creation of nature, and therefore deduces that man is this kind of being.
Smith talks about this essential "fellow feeling" that inspires men to share in the emotions of others.
What is sympathy?
Cursed, painful work.
What is toil?
The state of not having what one needs.
What is poverty?
This virtue is said to be the principle of order in political society
What is justice?
If a foreign country can supply a commodity cheaper than a country can make it, it is better to buy that product than to try and make it. This is the economic principle of...
What is comparative advantage?
The Lord banished Adam and Eve out of Eden to prevent their access to this woody perennial.
What is the tree of life?
That cherished virtue which distinguishes the successful from the unsuccessful.
What is carefulness?
The end goal of a city, and also its nature.
What is self-sufficiency?
This economic activity originates from the surplus of the division of labor.
What is commerce?