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Princeton: Princeton University Press, Date: 2008. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xvi, 342pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security. Combining a history of Athens with contemporary theories of collective action and rational choice developed by economists and political scientists, Josiah Ober examines Athenian democracy's unique contribution to the ancient Greek city-state's remarkable success, and demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices hold for us today. He argues that the key to Athens's success lay in how the city-state managed and organized the aggregation and distribution of knowledge among its citizens. Ober explores the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management, including the use of social networks for collecting information, publicity for building common knowledge, and open access for lowering transaction costs. He explains why a government's attempt to dam the flow ...

Princeton University Press. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Dust jacket has light wear. Unmarked, pages clean & bright, binding tight. Ships Next Business Day. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691133476 9780691133478 [US]

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