16th Century English Economics

Like Plato, almost 2000 years before him, Thomas More was not satisfied with the political and economic structure of the society that he lived in. More found that his society, 16th century England, was a corrupt society that favored the few and oppressed the many. More, like Plato who wrote the Republic, also wrote a political commentary about his time entitled "Utopia". In Utopia, More explains the relative idiocy of killing a thief for stealing when …

…in later years after his death, this oppression could only last for a time until the poor rose up and demanded equal treatment. A change that took many centuries to accomplish. Bibliography Thomas More, Utopia trans. Paul Turner (Penguin Books Ltd. 1965), Introduction by Paul Turner. Birnie Arthur, An Economic History of the British Isles (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1961) Plato, The Republic and Other Works trans B. Jowett (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1989)