The Economics of Aging

The state should be using the market as a tool, he argues. The granary system is essential for feeding the people and insuringthe provisioning of grain in times of crisis or famine. At the same time, the granaries are part of a private market. So you have these these overlapping logics where there is no such thing as a private marketan instead, the private market really becomes part of the state and the state part of the market. This is some pretty sophisticated political for stuff that was written two thousand plus years ago,. thinking about how strategic state intervention can effect supply, demand and price.