Households Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Oikos: Beauty, Domination, Scarcity	15
1	Odysseus' Household	17
1.1	The Kurios	17
1.2	Philia	20
1.3	The Livelihood of Odysseus' Household	21
1.3.1	Labor	22
1.3.2	The Purposes of the Oikos Economy	25
1.3.3	The Place of the Economy within the Household	28
2	The Political Economy of the Ancient Household	34
2.1	The Community of the Household	35
2.2	Philia and Hierarchy in the Household	38
2.3	The Household's Purposes	41
2.3.1	The Ancient Economy of Time	42
2.3.2	The Limits of Acquisition	47
2.4	The Polis Economy	55
2.5	Servitude	67
2.5.1	Servitude, Community, and the Economy	68
2.5.2	Servitude and Time	72
2.5.3	"If Thus Shuttles Wove": Scarcity and Domination	75
2.6	Pandora's Jar: The Idea of the Economy	76
Pt. 2	The Moral Economy of the Liberal Household	95
3	Despotic and Conjugal Households	97
3.1	Wives and Children	102
3.2	Masters and Servants	104
3.3	Hobbes and Rousseau on the Family	106
4	Lions and Pole-Cats: Domination as the Summum Malum	112
4.1	A Scepter to Rule	112
4.2	Contracts and Contracting Agents	124
4.2.1	Choice	128
4.2.2	Persons and Contracts	138
4.3	The New Body Politic	140
4.3.1	The Impersonality of the Contractarian Community	143
5	The New Body Economic: The Contract Community and Its Economy	146
5.1	The Economies of Despotic and Liberal Households	146
5.2	Spades and Scepters	150
5.3	The Autonomy of the Economic Sphere	151
5.4	Labor	160
5.4.1	The Alienation of Labor	162
5.5	Time, Leisure, and the Liberal Economy	167
6	Public Homes, Private Homes: Society and Economy in Classical Liberalism	170
Pt. 3	Marx and the New Household Economy	177
7	The Dissolution of the Old World	177
7.1	From Status to Contract	180
7.2	Communities	195
7.2.1	The "Real Community" of Use-Value	195
7.2.2	The Bourgeois Community	200
8	Markets	205
8.1	Coercive Transfers: The Origins of the Market	206
8.2	Choice and Constraints	208
8.2.1	Remarks on Classes and the State	216
8.3	Perverse Consequences	222
8.3.1	Overproduction and Undersatisfaction	228
8.3.2	Economies of Time	232
8.4	Markets and Firms	239
9	The Household Economy Restored	246
9.1	The Aristotelian Foundations of Marx's Economics	246
9.2	The New Oikos	251
9.2.1	Time	252
9.2.2	Community	255
9.2.3	Freedom	258
10	Marx, Markets, and Household Economies	262
	Conclusion: "This Household Is What Is Common to Us"	277
	Index	297