This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia. Unlike earlier studies that mainly focused on its political history, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, analysing aspects of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine -- 3. Third-Way Perspectives on Order in Interwar France: Personalism and the Political Economy of François Perroux -- 4. Corporatism and Planning in Monnet’s Idea of Europe --...

Robert Fritzsch provides an institutional economic analysis of the Great Recession. The author shows that institutions matter as determinants of crisis resilience - however in a different way than predicted by the prominent theories of Olson (1982) and North, Wallis, Weingast (2009), as the...

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Before the Crisis -- Chapter 3. The 2008 Crisis -- Chapter 4. The Crisis and Aftermath: Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 5. The Crisis and Aftermath: Society and Economics -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

Chapter 1 What Could Be the Contents of Adam Smith’s Third Book -- Chapter 2 The Contributions and Deficiencies of Keynesian Economics -- Chapter 3 Scarcity and Generation of Resources -- Chapter 4 The Dual Attributes of Government -- Chapter 5 Regional Government Competition -- Chapter 6...

1. The Concept of Power -- 2. Political Power -- 3. Economic Power -- 4. The Separation of Economic from Political Power -- 5. Power in Pre-Agricultural Societies -- 6. Power in Agrarian and Feudal Societies -- 7. Institutions That Support Commerce and Industry -- 8. Power in Commercial and...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting State theory in Knowledge Capitalism after markets failure and pandemic crisis through a space – time approach -- Chapter 2. The socio – space – time relativity of the State -- Chapter 3. Long – term cyclicality of capitalism as State time dimension --...