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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Athenian Money, Taxes, Revenues | |
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| Introduction: Dispersed Knowledge and Public Action | |
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| Theory and Practice | |
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| Rational Choice and Joint Action | |
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| Premises and Problem | |
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| Caveats and Method | |
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| The Argument and Its Contexts | |
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| Experts and Interests | |
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| Hypothesis | |
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| Assessing Athenian Performance | |
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| Historical Evaluation | |
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| Aggregate Flourishing | |
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| Distribution of Coinage | |
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| Athens versus Syracuse and Sparta | |
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| Citations in Greek Literature and Other Measures | |
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| Athens ? 12: A Multiperiod Case Study | |
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| Democracy as an Explanatory Variable | |
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| Republics, Democracies, and Athenian Exceptionalism | |
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| Competition, Scale, and Varieties of Knowledge | |
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| Competition and Its Consequences | |
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| Participation and Scale | |
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| Social, Technical, and Latent Knowledge | |
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| Preferences, Parties, and Costly Information | |
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| Hierarchy, Democracy, and Productivity | |
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| Knowledge Processes as Public-Action Strategies | |
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| Aggregation: Networks, Teams, and Experts | |
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| Institutional Design: Incentives, Low Cost, Sorting | |
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| Establishing a Naval Station, 32S/4 B. C. | |
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| Demes and Tribes as Social Networks | |
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| The Council of 500: Structural Holes and Bridging Ties | |
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| Organizational and Individual Learning | |
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| Boards of Magistrates as Real Teams | |
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| Ostracism, Assembly, and People's Courts | |
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| Alignment: Common Knowledge, Commitment, and Coordination | |
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| Alignment and Hierarchy | |
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| Following Leaders, Rules, and Commitments | |
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| Cascading and Social Equilibrium | |
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| A Trial for Treason, 330 B.C. | |
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| Common Knowledge and Publicity | |
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| Rational Rituals and Public Monuments | |
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| Architecture and Intervisibility | |
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| Scaling Common Knowledge | |
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| Codification: Access, Impartiality, and Transaction Costs | |
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| Intention and Interpretation | |
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| Open Entry, Fair Procedure, and Transaction Costs | |
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| A Law on Silver Coinage, 375/4 B.C. | |
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| Silver Owls, Athenian and Imitation | |
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| Approval, Certification, Confiscation | |
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| Legal Standing and Social Status | |
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| Rules and Rents: Historical Survey | |
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| Expanding Access | |
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| Democracy and Social Security | |
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| Horizons of Fairness | |
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| Conclusions: Government by the People | |
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| Knowledge in Action | |
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| The Democracy/Knowledge Hypothesis Revisited | |
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| Formality and Experimentation | |
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| Institutions and Ideology | |
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| Exceptionalism and Exemplarity | |
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| Aggregate Material Flourishing | |
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| Distribution of Coins in Hoards | |
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| Prominence in Classical Greek Literature | |
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| Impact of Constitution and Historical Experience | |
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| Athenian State Capacity and Democracy, 600–250 B. C. | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |