This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems. The origin of ethical values is analyzed from a historical context and, through investigating the spread of the Aryan civilization from India into the rest of the...

1.Origin of the Aryans -- 2.Ancient History of the Indians, Russians, and Japanese -- 3.Ethics of the Aryans and Modern Sages of India -- 4.Ethics of Kautilya -- 5.Relationship between Ancient Greece and ancient India, and Christianity -- 6.Ethics of Buddhism -- 7.Ethics of Japanese Buddhism,...

The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient...