Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. By David W. Tandy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 296. $45.00.)

David Tandy addresses the economic transformation of Greece, in the eighth century B.C., from a Dark Age system of reciprocity, or gift exchange, in which the "big men" (aristoi) played a key role, to the market economy that characterized the Archaic city state. A society in which wealth followed status changed ...