「Consider the last group first. Our ‘economy’ is derived from the Gk. oikonomia, but this meant originally and usually the management of a private household (oikos) rather than that of a ‘national’ economy (see household, Greek). Each ‘normal’ Greek household (comprising a two‐generation nuclear family, free dependants, slaves, animals, land, and other property) aimed to be as self‐sufficient as possible, making allowance for the basic constants of the changing domestic life‐cycle, and the amount and nature of available land and labour. Household economy in Greece was overwhelmingly rural economy, the number of genuine cities or even genuinely urban residential centres being countable on the fingers of a single hand. 」