Titlebook: Essays in Contemporary Economics; A Festschrift in Mem George C. Bitros,Nicholas C. Kyriazis Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Sw

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The Birth of Modern Enterprise Theology: Protestant England: 1600–1900omotion of freedom of choice and “opportunity”, adherence to free market economics, self-responsibility, the diminution of the social for individual and familial setting and duties, and the idealisation of the entrepreneur and enterprise. The aim of this chapter is to follow the development of these

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The Stationary State: Deadlocks and New Perspectivesbundance and peace will reign, in a society finally freed from the passion for money. The stationary state did appear in 1970s western countries in the form of saturation of markets for common goods and widespread welfare. However, instead of satisfaction, it made—together with the enormous increase

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Leon Walras on Social Justicey of positions” is related to socio-economic arrangements that correspond to a competitive market economy which needs to solve the problems of “order” and “justice”, under the criteria of liberty and equality. In the final section, we show that Walras’ notion of social justice has little in common w

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The Middle Class and the Markete with the involvement of emerging economies, which this time will “expatriate low intensity capital and productivity”. Should this be the case, the middle classes in developed countries will continue suffering the pressures of labour share losses. One way to cope with all these pressures has alread

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The Qualities and Workings of Direct Democracy: Lessons from Classical Athensing. In particular, the paper conceptualizes Athenian democracy as an institution which is founded on two pillars: public discourse and public ideology. The former refers to the reciprocal communication between citizens enabling, inter alia, the integration of diverse knowledge and the coordination

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The Glue of Democracy: Economics, Warfare and Values in Classical Greeceand the emergence of democracy in classical Greece. We propose that the phalanx formation led to the development of particular values and ethics, which again were the necessary conditions for the emergence of democracy, a unique phenomenon. We then argue that seapower was a sufficient condition for

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Fair Distribution of Wealth: From the Greek Syssitia to the Dinners of Lovetution of syssitia was a part of two “prosperous” poleis in Antiquity, Crete and Sparta, and was accepted and described by Aristotle in his “best polis”. The institution of the communal meals, the Dinners of Love, was pivotal in primeval Apostolic Church. Τhis institution guaranteed a unified Church