Aristotle’s first move on this front is to favor barter over market relations, because barter hews to need, while markets veer toward gain. However, even for need provision, Aristotle recognizes the inevitability of currency-based exchange arising from trade across distances. So he reaches for other ways to cap the impulses generated by the presence of the market. One of these is moral, the other ontological.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 177