1. Plato, The Republic, trans. Desmond Lee (New York: Penguin, 2007), Bk. VIII, 552b.
2. Aristotle, Politics, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 2, ed. Jonathan Barnes, trans. Benjamin Jowett (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 1.5.1254b6.
3. See Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 28–37.
4. See John Brewer, Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State 1688–1783 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990).
5. Ronald L. Meek, The Economics of Physiocracy: Essays and Translations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963), 128.