The idea of social justice in the ancient world / Social justice and the subsistence economy : from Aristotle to seventeenth-century economics / The origins of a concept of social justice / KHREMATA : acquisition and possession in archaic Greece / Images of justice in early Greek poetry / Justice and the metaphor of medicine in early Greek thought / Social justice in ancient Iran / The ideological basis for social justice/responsibility in ancient Egypt / Social justice in early Islamic society / The idea of social justice in ancient China / Social justice in the ancient Near East / Social reform in ancient Mesopotamia / Prophets and markets revisited / Demands for land redistribution and debt reduction in the Roman Republic