The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.24

c11.s5.24

It is too well known that the *ager publicus* (public domain) was the mainstay of public finance at Rome even under the Empire. The place of "state-property" and "state monopolies" in French finance was very high, as one learns from Brissaud's *Histoire du Droit Public Français* and Leroy-Beaulieu's *Traité de la Science des Finances*. The system of public granaries (Breloer's *Reservepolitik*, *Magasinpolitik*) was established by Augustus in order to mitigate the evils of a famine. On the occasion of a famine in Marcus Aurelius's time the Roman Empire organized a seven year supply of provisions. The institution was championed by Thomas Mun in *England's Treasure by Forraign Trade* and Jean Bodin in *Les six Livres de la République*. The idea of a war-chest was popular with the Hohenzollerns from Frederick the Great to Wilhelm II.