On Oligarchy : : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics / / David Tabachnick, Toivu Koivukoski, Herminio Meireles Teixeira.

• VerfasserIn: Tabachnick, David,; Koivukoski, Toivu,; Teixeira, Herminio Meireles,
• MitwirkendeR: Bagby, Laurie M. Johnson,; Bradshaw, Leah,; Cooper, Craig,; Kellow, Geoffrey,; Koivukoski, Toivo,; Neill, Jeremy S.,; Newell, Waller R.,; Sikkenga, Jeffrey,; Simpson, Peter,; Skultety, Steven C.,; Tabachnick, David Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few, even as democratic movements worldwide allow for political power to be dispersed among the many. With their access to influence, the wealthy can shape and constrain the political power of the rest of the world. As the econ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface: Understanding Oligarchy
• 1 Oligarchy and Oikonomia: Aristotle's Ambivalent Assessment of Private Property
• 2 Aristotle and American Oligarchy: A Study in Political Influence
• 3 Overcoming Oligarchy: Republicanism and the Right to Property in The Federalist
• 4 A Corruption of Oligarchs
• 5 The Threat of Misguided Elites: Aristotle on Oligarchy
• 6 Thucydides and the Importance of Ideology in Conflict
• 7 Oligarchs and Democrats
• 8 A Shortage of Men: Wealth, Rank, and Recognition in Cicero's Civic Education
• 9 On Oligarchy: An Ontological Account
• 10 Oligarchy and the Rule of Law
• Contributors
• Index