caa a22 4500 388082003 CHVBK 20180307125219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/gr/46.2.147 doi S0017383500026231 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1093/gr/46.2.147 Salmon John The Economic Role of the Greek City [Elektronische Daten] [John Salmon] The economic role of the state is controversial, even after the collapse of communism and the election of New Labour. The demand that governments get off the backs of wealth-creators has barely diminished since the 1980s; but some still urge control of private and corporate greed in the public interest. There is no sign of such controversy in Greek antiquity; but I shall suggest that the practice of the cities depended on political considerations which reveal comparable principles. All governments, whatever their complexion, now accept some responsibility for general economic well-being, even if their actions may amount to little more than a claim that prosperity will ‘trickle down' from top to bottom. Numerous functions which would now be identified as economic were performed by Greek cities; after brief preliminaries to set the economic scene, I shall explore them, and try to determine why they were undertaken. Copyright © The Classical Association 1999 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/2(1999-10), 147-167 0017-3835 46:2<147 1999 46 GAR https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/46.2.147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/46.2.147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Salmon John NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/2(1999-10), 147-167 0017-3835 46:2<147 1999 46 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge