-- Works by Plato -- By other authors -- Index. …"Plato was the first of the great thinkers to integrate the economy into a wide-ranging synthesis of ethical absolutes … political economy of production, consumption, distribution and exchange. Drawing on the whole of Plato's published work, this …

This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and … ownership, and back to restoring market incentives. The grand experiment of communism is thus characterized to have led to the … long-run transitions from capitalism to communism and back observed in the course of the 20-th century, the model also …