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>As usual,our discussions of the origins of economics is 
>Eurocentric,ignoring the contributions of other civilizatons to the 
>development of economic science (of course,I  also have a hard time 
>viewing the Greeks as western while knowing that the works of Plato 
>and Xenophon devote so much to the likes of Cyrous of Persia, rather 
>than to the people of  Western Europe). 
 
Ummm... I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but Kurush the  
Achaemenid is part of *western* civilization.   
 
We get a lot from the Achaemenid Empire: the idea that careers  
should be open to talents without distinction of ethnic origin, the  
idea that *all* citizens are equally subject to the law, and the idea  
that everyone has a moral duty to aid the Right and Justice in its  
struggle with Wrong and Injustice.   
 
:-) 
Brad DeLong 
 
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