With regards to the model of the homo oeconomicus this paper argues that incentives for performing liturgies in classical Athens were based on profit-oriented calculation rather than desire to gain support for public offices. In classical Athens democratic measures diminished the power of single-person offices which led to a decrease in the desire to hold such offices by the aristocracy. Simultaneously, recourse to altruistic incentives is incompatible with the costs of liturgies and the effort some members of Athens society made in order to perform them. Careful examination of past research on liturgical spending in classical Athens and an analysis of coeval conditions show the validity of economic instruments that lead to a rational-actor perspective on public spending under the incentive of financial gain rather than non-monetary profit.

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Choregia 和trierarchy 作为以利润为导向的创业

关于经济人的模型，本文认为古典雅典举行礼仪的动机是基于利润导向的计算，而不是希望获得对公职的支持。在古典雅典，民主措施削弱了单人职位的权力，这导致贵族担任此类职位的意愿下降。同时，求助于利他主义的激励与礼仪的成本和雅典社会的一些成员为执行它们所做的努力是不相容的。仔细检查过去对古典雅典礼仪支出的研究和对同时期条件的分析表明经济工具的有效性，这些经济工具在经济收益而非非货币利润的激励下导致对公共支出的理性行为者视角。