Waldauer, Charles; Zahka, William J.; Pal, Surendra - In: Indian Economic Review 31 (1996) January, pp. 101-108
This paper demonstrates that Kautilya, a great Indian Philosopher-statesman and contemporary of Aristotle, and whose work was lost for more than 1400 years, anticipated classical economic thought by some 2,000 years in the areas of international trade, taxation and a labour theory of value. This...