The objetive of the article is to emphasize the place of economics in the political cosmovision of Aristotle under the assumption of economics as a central dimension and a prerequisite of the philosopher's thinking about political community. In that sense, it covers three aspects of that problematic. The firs aspect, the most visible one, which discovery is merit of Arendtian hermeneutics, attends specifically to the problem of bad chrematistic as a deconstruction of the politics's object, in so far as communitarian life is related to the good life. The second aspect allows the philosopher to relate, for the first time in Western history, the political regimes to the social structure of the polis. The third aspect implies a vision of political regimes in economic terms and is the core of Aristotle's profound criticism of oligarchy. In that way, it makes explicit another assumptiom of this paper: that Aristotle's reflections are concentrated on the notion of public sphere and, for that reason, they privilege theoretically aristocracy, politeia, and even democracy.
Economics; Politics; Chrematistic; Political regimes