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Relationality in Aristotle's Economy
Aristotle's economy is a political economy; it is not the house (oikos) that is central, nor (long-distance) trade, but the urban polis market, which...
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Antike griechische Wirtschaft und Anfänge ökonomischen Denkens
Die geographischen Bedingungen Griechenlands, insbesondere die Gebirge, „trieb die Griechen auf das Meer“. Max Weber verwendete den Begriff der...
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Akademgorodok 2.0 as a Regional Scientific and Innovation Ecosystem: Problems of Formation and Management
Abstract—The article discusses the first steps towards implementing the Development Program for the Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the Siberian...
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Some Observations on the Development of a Sacred Economy from the Archaic Age up to Hellenism
The paper aims to underline the relevance of Greek sanctuaries in establishing a State treasury in the pre-Hellenistic period. In the Archaic and...
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Epidemiological modeling of Romanization and Christianization in Ancient Greece
The spread of culture has been often paralleled with epidemic contagion. We propose to use models of this type to analyze Romanization and...
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Piketty’s Dilemma: Taxes in Fourth-Century Athens
Piketty’s central thesis is that accumulated property grows disproportionally in comparison to wages, because the wealthy benefit from returns on...
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Eleven Theses on the Humanization of Development: ‘Praxis Philosophy’ in World of the Third
This paper makes space for eleven possible moves to humanize development. The first is to turn to capabilities-functionings, quality of life and...
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Greeks and Romans: The Religions Without Professional Priests
This chapter first examines Greek religion from MycenaeanMycenaeans to Hellenistic times. A vast and growing pantheonPantheon features gods with...
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Aegean Transport Amphoras (Sixth to First Centuries BCE): Exploring Social Tension in a Path Dependency Model
Two aspects of the production of transport amphoras (ship** containers often for wine and oil) are considered in terms of path dependency and...
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Akademgorodok 2.0 Megaproject: Are Dreams Coming True?
AbstractThe development of science-oriented urban settlements in Russia—so-called naukograds and akademgorodoks—is examined against the global...
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Two Published and Two Unpublishable (?) Urban Plans
In this Chapter we are going to give a fast look at four urban plans: The outline of two such plans has already been published; two more plans offer...
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Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Aristocratic Being
Why approach Nietzsche through AristotleAristotle? It has long been noticed that Nietzsche’s insistence on hierarchy and the instrumentalization of...
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The Economy of Francesco and the Age of Sustainable Development
This paper sketches five systems of economic ethics in the course of Western history: the Ancient Greeks and Romans, Biblical Judaism and early...
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The Metaphysics of Social Collectives
Once established the metaphysic nature of the economy and of the economic agent as deciding and acting subject, and also as worker, we need to...
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Negative Politics: Nietzsche
Here, precisely the political aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy is at stake. Undoubtedly, Nietzsche aimed to “philosophize with a hammer.”
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Cicero’s Civic Education at the Dawn of Empire
The second chapter turns to Rome and the challenges to civic education that arise in the movement from polis to mass republic and incipient empire....
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Inequality in the Peloponnesian War
The revolt of member states of the Delian League during the Peloponnesian War can be described as the result of an economic phenomenon called the...
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The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars
In 594 BCE, the Athenian lawgiver Solon, called upon to resolve a deepening social crisis, introduced a new constitution and mandated that in civil...
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Wealth, Inequality and Political Culture in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor, First to Third Centuries CE
In Roman imperial Asia Minor, urban elites first appear to have grown steadily wealthier and to have broadened during the first and much of the...