chrematistic

The sustainable degrowth movement insists on the non-chrematistic value of local, reciprocal services.

Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009

Thus the unnatural—chrematistic—means of ministering to the natural life-process becomes elevated as the end of social life:

Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism 2008

Aristotle condemns usury because it is the most extreme and dangerous form of chrematistic acquisition, or the art of making money for its own sake.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

He had published in 1500 at Paris a chrematistic work entitled _Collectanea Adagiorum_, a collection of

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

23 In contrast to this household or “economic” form is the “chrematistic” form of unnatural acquisition.

Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism 2008

As we have seen above, in discussing the legitimacy of commerce, buying cheap and selling dear was one form of chrematistic acquisition, which could only be justified by the presence of certain motives; and usury, according to the philosopher, was a still more striking example of the same kind of acquisition, because it consisted in making money from money, which was thus employed for a function different from that for which it had been originally invented.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

The scholastics, in addition to condemning commerce on the authority of the patristic texts, condemned it also on the Aristotelean ground that it was a chrematistic art, and this consideration, as we have seen above, enters into Aquinas's article on the subject. [

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien