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Money and Freedom

- How Greece and Rome Changed the World
Af: Andrew Selkirk Engelsk Paperback

Money and Freedom

- How Greece and Rome Changed the World
Af: Andrew Selkirk Engelsk Paperback
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What is the secret of Ancient Greece and Rome? Andrew Selkirk suggests the answer is that the Greeks invented money – and the market economy. Money gives you choice, and choice gives you freedom, and freedom led to the outburst of creativity that was the miracle of Greece. Rome then used the Greek foundations to build a great empire. This book is in three parts. It begins by looking at the world before money, and it examines the Minoan Empire, the forerunner of the Greeks. The Minoans lacked money and was therefore a totalitarian state, based on palaces. The book then compares the Minoans with the Greeks, whose cities used money and were based around the marketplace. But there was one city that rejected money, and that was Sparta, which produced good soldiers, but no culture. The Romans then built up a great empire on Greek principles by learning that winning the peace was more important than winning a war. And when their politics broke down, Augustus put aside democracy and introduced peace and prosperity. Over 300 color illustrations are included to present a new, and very readable account of the Greek and Roman revolution. It shows how many of the ideas first pioneered by the Greeks have vital lessons for the modern world.
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What is the secret of Ancient Greece and Rome? Andrew Selkirk suggests the answer is that the Greeks invented money – and the market economy. Money gives you choice, and choice gives you freedom, and freedom led to the outburst of creativity that was the miracle of Greece. Rome then used the Greek foundations to build a great empire. This book is in three parts. It begins by looking at the world before money, and it examines the Minoan Empire, the forerunner of the Greeks. The Minoans lacked money and was therefore a totalitarian state, based on palaces. The book then compares the Minoans with the Greeks, whose cities used money and were based around the marketplace. But there was one city that rejected money, and that was Sparta, which produced good soldiers, but no culture. The Romans then built up a great empire on Greek principles by learning that winning the peace was more important than winning a war. And when their politics broke down, Augustus put aside democracy and introduced peace and prosperity. Over 300 color illustrations are included to present a new, and very readable account of the Greek and Roman revolution. It shows how many of the ideas first pioneered by the Greeks have vital lessons for the modern world.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9798888571187
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 8888571183
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 15 jul 2024
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Casemate Publishers
Oplagsdato: 15 jul 2024
Forfatter(e): Andrew Selkirk
Forfatter(e) Andrew Selkirk

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9798888571187

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 15 jul 2024

Oplagsdato 15 jul 2024

Forlag Casemate Publishers

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