Author(s):
1. Benjamina Londrc, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract:
Greek philosophical thought pays the least attention to the antique economy; even the most brilliant minds such as Plato (427 – 347 B.C.) and Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) dedicated to economy and enterprise just to mention them in passing as activities that affect what is more important –the form of government and the organization of the state! The practical side of business, commerce and banking is left to metics–resident aliens in Athens, while the greatest Athenian lawmaker Solon, within the overall reform of the Athenian legal system also reforms the economic sector with the first protectionist measures in the antique economy. However, the Golden Age of Athens, or the Age of Pericles, also brings the definitive economic and financial flourishing where the transition comes primarily in the understanding of the ways to obtain value, which also characterizes the Roman state after the Punic Wars, in the age of the Late Republic. There the transitionprimarily represents leaving the traditional agricultural economy, and includes, first of all,the change in the established values​​, with the greater strengthening of fiscus and a huge rise of what today could be freely referred to as public-private partnership. What can we generally observe and learn from the transition processes in the antique economy?

Key words:
antique, economy, money, maritime affairs, trade, transition

Date of abstract submission:
24.01.2014.

Conference:
REDETE 2014 - Researching Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies