| I am greatly indebted to the Rockefeller Foundation which made it possible for me to obtain clerical and research assistance. I am indebted also to the works of many scholars whose studies have made possible this inquiry into the interpretation of the development of economic thought with that of man's concerns respecting economic justice, especially in the ancient world. |
| Ms. Barbara Culbertson, Mrs. Virginia Skinner, and Mrs. Margaret Moore have contributed greatly to the preparation of several versions of portions of this study and the shaping up of the final manuscript. |
| My wife, Dorothy, has done a great deal to facilitate completion of this as of other of my works. She has freed me of many chores which would otherwise have interfered with my completion of this study. She has also provided me with inspiration by surrounding me with flowers of exotic origin. |
| Thanks are due also to Joyce Atwood and her staff for the fine editorial work done on my manuscript by the Southern Illinois University Press. |
| I wish to thank the following publishers for their kind permission to quote from the books listed below: |
| Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, and Random House, Inc., New York, The Basic Works of Aristotle, 1941, and The Dialogues of Plato, 1937. |
| Columbia University Press, New York, Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated by Burton Watson, 1961. |
| Doubleday and Co., New York, History Begins at Sumer, by Samuel N. Kramer, 1959. |
| Oxford University Press, New York, and Oxford, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger, 194345, and The Oxford Translation of Aristotle, edited by W. D. Ross, 1925. |
| Princeton University Press, A History of Chinese Philosophy, by Fung Yu-lan and translated by Derk Bodde, 1952. |
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