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The christian economy in the early medieval west : towards a temple society

Wood, Ian N. - 2022

The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted...

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Accounting and Forms of Accountability in Ancient Civilizations : Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt

Carmona, Salvador; Ezzamel, Mahmoud - 2009

The aim of this paper is to identify the relevance and implications of ancient accounting practices to the contemporary theorizing of accounting. The paper provides a synthesis of the literature on ancient accounting particularly in relation to issues of human accountability, identifies its...

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Democracy and Aristocracy in Ancient Athens : Deformation or Adaptation

Goušchin, Valerij - 2015

The article analyzes the role of the aristocracy in democratic Athens, i.e. in the Vth Century B.C. What happened to the aristocracy in democratic Athens? Whether the aristocrats were able to adapt themselves to new social and political realities? It is suggested that there took place their...

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Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens

Carugati, Federica; Hadfield, Gillian K.; Weingast, Barry R. - 2015

How do democratic societies establish and maintain order in ways that are conducive to growth? Contemporary scholarship associates order, democracy, and growth with centralized rule of law institutions. In this article, we test the robustness of modern assumptions by turning to the case of...

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The Origins of Democracy : A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

Fleck, Robert K.; Hanssen, F. Andrew - 2002

This paper seeks to provide an improved understanding of the origins of democracy. It begins by developing a theoretical model to demonstrate how exogenous economic conditions can influence both the incentives to establish democratic institutions and the likelihood that such institutions...

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The Liberating Power of Entrepreneurship in Ancient Athens

Bitros, Georgios (George) C.; Karayiannis, Anastassios - 2005

Our objectives in this paper are threefold. First, we identify the nature of entrepreneurial climate in ancient Athens. Drawing on the analyses of Athenian writers we argue that, although philosophers, politicians, and generals enjoyed greater civil and social status relative to those pursuing...

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Benoit Mandelbrot 1924-2010 : A Greek Among Romans

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

In this brief note describes the trajectory of the fractal models/multifractal F/M by Benoit Mandelbrot. The promise was discovered by the geometry of Mandelbrot covers a broad area of research fields, from meteorology and mathematical physics to the individual and collective behavior in...

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The Prison in Economics : Private and Public Incarceration in Ancient Greece

D'Amico, Daniel Joseph - 2010

Recent histories of Ancient Greece describe a transition from customary law to public criminal justice between 800 and … government must provide incarcerations. First, before the rise of a formal government, Ancient Greece had a functioning system of … criminal law enforcement. Second, the timeline surrounding the rise of government institutions in Ancient Greece originated …

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Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010) : A Greek Among Romans

Estrada, Fernando - 2011

series of major thinkers going back to classical Greece: a Greek among Romans …

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The African Origins of Greek Philosophy : Ancient Egypt in Retrospect

Anakwue, Nicholas - 2018

The demand of philosophizing in Africa has faced a history of criticism that has been particularly Eurocentric and strongly biased. However, that trend is changing with the emergence of core philosophical thinking in Africa. This paper is an attempt to articulate a singular issue in this...

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