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Ancient and modern

How Plato and Aristotle would have tackled unemployment

More self-employed people? No problem!

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

Labour is up in arms because many of the new jobs currently being created are among the self-employed. This seems to them to be cheating. Quite the reverse, ancients would have said.

Ancient thinkers knew all about the needs of the poor and were worried about their capacity to cause trouble (as they saw it) by revolution.

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