Creative Crisis in Democracy and Economy

• Main Authors: Bitros, George C. (Author), Karayiannis, Anastasios D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science > Philosophy.; Finance.; Social Sciences.; Political Economy.; Public Finance & Economics.; Political Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33421-4

Developments across the millennia suggest that, even though democracies and free market economies are continuously challenged by crises and disturbances, such as natural disasters, wars, or technological revolutions, in the countries where they take roots civil liberties deepen and per capita prospe...

Table of Contents:

• The Athenian Democray
• The Classical Democracy
• The Contemporary Democracy
• A Digression on Social Democracy
• The New Classical Democracy
• The Place of Democracy in the World and Globalization
• Democracy, Free Market Economy and European Unification
• Democracy in the Future and the New Welfare State
• The Case of Contemporary Greece.