Probing operating principles, outcomes and challenges faced by contemporary democracies, this book shows how governments can avoid pitfalls inherent to representative democracy. The authors apply their findings to Greek democracy and economy since 1945.

This book is intended to provide a basic understanding of issues and problems of economic integration. Identifying economic integration as one of the main features of modern international economics, the authors examine its many aspects and consequences which remain as yet obscure and unexplored.

This book is a collection of original essays grouped into four parts under the headings Greece and European integration, Issues in the Methodology of Economics, Institutions and the Free Market Economy, and Insights for Today from Ancient Greece. The essays appeal to both researchers in the corresponding fields of knowledge and also to policy makers who are looking for ideas and approaches to confront present day challenges. In particular, given the present state of turmoil in the European Union, the international economy, and democracies in general, most of the essays offer new insights for...