Democracy and economy : an inseparable relationship from ancient times to today / by Emmanouil Marios N. Economou and Nicholas C. Kyriazis.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text presents a detailed history of democracy, while also considering the modern methodological tools of economic history, institutional economics, and political, social and behavioural sciences, to explain why and how democracy was created, how it evolved and how it progresses. The book provides answers to a number of questions, such as what form of government democracy is, why it was first developed in ancient Greece, why it is that democracy--in order to flourish--requires strong and stable economic structures, and what role political and military organizations play in the shape of these elements. The volume analyses various cases studies drawn from Ancient Greece, Switzerland, England, the United Provinces, France, the USA, Germany and the EU.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The obvious that is not so obvious -- Part I: The democratic macroculture and the birth of democracy. The destruction of the Mycenaean world that brings forth creation: Democracy and war -- Democracy, religion, athletics and politics -- Macroculture, politics, human and property rights from the archaic to the classical and Hellenistic periods -- How the Athenian economy functioned -- The Greeks create the first federations -- Part II: The rebirth of democracy in post-medieval Europe and the rest of the world. The gradual revival of democracy from the late middle ages until today -- The united provinces: The first modern maritime proto-democratic federation -- England and the United provinces: Maritime democratic dwarfs against continental imperial giants -- New countries discover democracy -- The empire of oceans against the continental empire -- Modern forms of direct democracy -- Epilogue: Democracy in times of crisis -- Annex 1: The theoretical framework of the concept of macroculture -- Annex 2: The degree of democratisation and economic development -- References -- Index.

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