亚里士多德的《政治学》提出了关于经济表现和政治稳定之间的关系的截然不同的解读 ： “ 为了确保权力，暴君必须保持人口的贫困，让他们为糊口而奔波，没有闲暇考虑推密谋推翻暴君。
Aristotle’s Politics offers a radically different interpretation of the relationship between economic performance and political stability: “In order to secure his power, a tyrant must keep the population in poverty, so that the preoccupation with daily bread leaves them no leisure to conspire against the tyrant.”