Timeless dromological methods: in the seventeenth-century, when Colbert launches his economic politics with the idea of promoting "national wealth," a "national product," he prepares the way for Louvois' war-effort by "making sure needs are created," by triggering in his neighbors "the prodigious consumption of his so numerous products, " as Sir William Temple says.
For his war-sites, Louvois was directly inspired by Roman proletarianization, while Colbert reproduced the Athenian economic system that had finally brought about the collapse of Lacedaemonian power. As Lyautey writes in 1 90 1 , "The tactic of economic penetration alone is worth every other taught in the military academy." The dromocratic expansion of Greece had also found itself blocked at every turn by the military status quo. The native barbarians had learned to organize militarily in the West. The other colonial satellites collaborated in Greek politics . It is at this point that Athens renounced its system of extensive (rapid) penetration to adopt a system of intensive (slow) penetration; external military engagements were replaced by the abrogation of natural economies in the interior (agrarian reform, urbanization, creation of workshops and factories, etc.) .
Athenian curren<sub>cy</sub>, spread over the entire Mediterranean basin, pouncing on the economies of the big cities, created such an inflation of exchanges that it became fatal-notably to Sparta's equilibrium, which for its part had chosen the opposite solution:
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