Main Library

At the largest school library in Greece, we offer junior high and high school students all the necessary tools to do research projects and deepen their knowledge.

Athens College Library began its operation in the 1930s within the spaces of Benaki Hall.  Its collection was organized more systematically in the 1950s.  Since 1964, it is housed in its own 1300 m2 building on the Psychico campus, a structure designed by architect and Athens College alumnus, Pavlos Mylonas.

Opening Hours:  Monday-Friday 08.15-17.00, Saturday 11:00-16:00

During holidays and summer break, operating hours may change. 

 

At the Main Athens College Library, we have:

  • 100,000 Greek and foreign volumes in Greek and English
  • subscriptions to electronic databases
  • 200 current titles of printed and digital journals/magazines and newspapers
  • a rich selection of audiovisual materials
  • 200 study stations and 140 computers & laptops
  • the D-Space institutional repository in order to collect, organize, promote, and maintain materials produced at the College

 

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“A wonderful and engaging book that answers the question that has puzzled experts for centuries: “Why are some nations rich and others poor: divided by wealth and poverty, health and illness, food and famine?” Is culture, weather or geography at fault? Or, perhaps, ignorance of what the correct policies are?"

Author : Acemoglou, Daron, James A. Robinson
Edition : Livanis Publishing Organization

Acemoglou, Daron, James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Power.   Athens: Livanis Publishing Organization, 2013. [330 ACE]

“A wonderful and engaging book that answers the question that has puzzled experts for centuries: “Why are some nations rich and others poor: divided by wealth and poverty, health and illness, food and famine?” Is culture, weather or geography at fault? Or, perhaps, ignorance of what the correct policies are?The answer is “no.”  None of these factors is definitive or predestined.  Otherwise, how would one explain why Botswana is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, whilst other African nations such as Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson convincingly argue that political and financial institutions are the foundations for economic success or failure.  Based on fifteen years of innovative research, Acemoglu and Robinson provide extraordinary, historical examples from the Roman Empire, the city-states of the Maya civilization, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States and Africa to establish a new theory of political economy.”

“A fascinating book that answers questions such as:

  • China has built an authoritarian growth machine.Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overpower the West?
  • Are the good days of the United States numbered?Is the virtuous circle in which the elite gave rise to the power of the United States being impinged by a vicious one that will enrich and empower a small minority?
  • What is the most effective way to help billions of people out of the quagmire of poverty?   More humanitarian aid from the wealthy nations of the West?  Or, learning from the breakthrough ideas of Acemoglu and Robinson regarding the inter-relationship between political and financial institutions?”

-From the back cover and inside flap of the book

Read more in Greek….


Βιογραφικά στοιχεία των συγγραφέων

Ο Daron Acemoglou κατέχει την ακαδημαϊκή έδρα Killian Professor of Economics στο MIT. Το 2005 τιμήθηκε με το John Bates Clark Medal, το οποίο απονέμεται σε οικονομολόγους κάτω των σαράντα ετών με πολύ σημαντική συνεισφορά στην οικονομική σκέψη και γνώση.Ο πολιτικός επιστήμονας και οικονομολόγος James A. Robinson κατέχει την ακαδημαϊκή έδρα David Florence Professor of Government στο Πανεπιστήμιο Χάρβαρντ. Είναι ένας παγκοσμίου φήμης ειδικός για τη Λατινική Αμερική και την Αφρική και έχει εργαστεί στην Μποτσουάνα, τον Μαυρίκιο, τη Σιέρα Λεόνε και τη Νότια Αφρική.

-Από το αυτί του βιβλίου


 

Κριτικές  - ΠαρουσιάσειςΘανάσης Βασιλείου, Οι πολιτικές παράμετροι της φτώχειας, "Η Καθημερινή"/ "Τέχνες και Γράμματα", 4.5.2014Πάσχος Μανδραβέλης, Είναι οι θεσμοί, ανόητε, "Η Καθημερινή", 12.1.2014


 

Άλλοι ενδιαφέροντες τίτλοι στη βιβλιοθήκη περί οικονομίας, Ευρώπης και πολιτικής:

Αυτοκρατορίες σε πόλεμο, 1911-1923. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 2014. [909.821 ΑΥΤ]Η συνθήκη της Λισσαβώνας: η νέα συνθήκη της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης και το κοινό σχέδιο για το μέλλον της Ευρώπης. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2008. [341.2422 ΣΥΝ]Schmidt, Helmut. Η αυτοδυναμία της Ευρώπης: προοπτικές για τον 21ο αιώνα. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2003. [341.2422 SCH]Wilk, Richard, Lisa C. Cliggett. Οικονομία και πολιτισμός: αρχές οικονομικής ανθρωπολογίας. Αθήνα: Κριτική, 2010. [306.3 WIL]

 

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“A wonderful and engaging book that answers the question that has puzzled experts for centuries: “Why are some nations rich and others poor: divided by wealth and poverty, health and illness, food and famine?” Is culture, weather or geography at fault? Or, perhaps, ignorance of what the correct policies are?"

Author : Acemoglou, Daron, James A. Robinson
Edition : Livanis Publishing Organization

Acemoglou, Daron, James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Power.   Athens: Livanis Publishing Organization, 2013. [330 ACE]

“A wonderful and engaging book that answers the question that has puzzled experts for centuries: “Why are some nations rich and others poor: divided by wealth and poverty, health and illness, food and famine?” Is culture, weather or geography at fault? Or, perhaps, ignorance of what the correct policies are?The answer is “no.”  None of these factors is definitive or predestined.  Otherwise, how would one explain why Botswana is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, whilst other African nations such as Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson convincingly argue that political and financial institutions are the foundations for economic success or failure.  Based on fifteen years of innovative research, Acemoglu and Robinson provide extraordinary, historical examples from the Roman Empire, the city-states of the Maya civilization, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States and Africa to establish a new theory of political economy.”

“A fascinating book that answers questions such as:

  • China has built an authoritarian growth machine.Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overpower the West?
  • Are the good days of the United States numbered?Is the virtuous circle in which the elite gave rise to the power of the United States being impinged by a vicious one that will enrich and empower a small minority?
  • What is the most effective way to help billions of people out of the quagmire of poverty?   More humanitarian aid from the wealthy nations of the West?  Or, learning from the breakthrough ideas of Acemoglu and Robinson regarding the inter-relationship between political and financial institutions?”

-From the back cover and inside flap of the book

Read more in Greek….


Βιογραφικά στοιχεία των συγγραφέων

Ο Daron Acemoglou κατέχει την ακαδημαϊκή έδρα Killian Professor of Economics στο MIT. Το 2005 τιμήθηκε με το John Bates Clark Medal, το οποίο απονέμεται σε οικονομολόγους κάτω των σαράντα ετών με πολύ σημαντική συνεισφορά στην οικονομική σκέψη και γνώση.Ο πολιτικός επιστήμονας και οικονομολόγος James A. Robinson κατέχει την ακαδημαϊκή έδρα David Florence Professor of Government στο Πανεπιστήμιο Χάρβαρντ. Είναι ένας παγκοσμίου φήμης ειδικός για τη Λατινική Αμερική και την Αφρική και έχει εργαστεί στην Μποτσουάνα, τον Μαυρίκιο, τη Σιέρα Λεόνε και τη Νότια Αφρική.

-Από το αυτί του βιβλίου


 

Κριτικές  - ΠαρουσιάσειςΘανάσης Βασιλείου, Οι πολιτικές παράμετροι της φτώχειας, "Η Καθημερινή"/ "Τέχνες και Γράμματα", 4.5.2014Πάσχος Μανδραβέλης, Είναι οι θεσμοί, ανόητε, "Η Καθημερινή", 12.1.2014


 

Άλλοι ενδιαφέροντες τίτλοι στη βιβλιοθήκη περί οικονομίας, Ευρώπης και πολιτικής:

Αυτοκρατορίες σε πόλεμο, 1911-1923. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 2014. [909.821 ΑΥΤ]Η συνθήκη της Λισσαβώνας: η νέα συνθήκη της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης και το κοινό σχέδιο για το μέλλον της Ευρώπης. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2008. [341.2422 ΣΥΝ]Schmidt, Helmut. Η αυτοδυναμία της Ευρώπης: προοπτικές για τον 21ο αιώνα. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2003. [341.2422 SCH]Wilk, Richard, Lisa C. Cliggett. Οικονομία και πολιτισμός: αρχές οικονομικής ανθρωπολογίας. Αθήνα: Κριτική, 2010. [306.3 WIL]

 

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“A wonderful and engaging book that answers the question that has puzzled experts for centuries: “Why are some nations rich and others poor: divided by wealth and poverty, health and illness, food and famine?” Is culture, weather or geography at fault? Or, perhaps, ignorance of what the correct policies are?"

Author : Acemoglou, Daron, James A. Robinson
Edition : Livanis Publishing Organization

Acemoglou, Daron, James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Power.   Athens: Livanis Publishing Organization, 2013. [330 ACE]

“A wonderful and engaging book that answers the question that has puzzled experts for centuries: “Why are some nations rich and others poor: divided by wealth and poverty, health and illness, food and famine?” Is culture, weather or geography at fault? Or, perhaps, ignorance of what the correct policies are?The answer is “no.”  None of these factors is definitive or predestined.  Otherwise, how would one explain why Botswana is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, whilst other African nations such as Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson convincingly argue that political and financial institutions are the foundations for economic success or failure.  Based on fifteen years of innovative research, Acemoglu and Robinson provide extraordinary, historical examples from the Roman Empire, the city-states of the Maya civilization, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States and Africa to establish a new theory of political economy.”

“A fascinating book that answers questions such as:

  • China has built an authoritarian growth machine.Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overpower the West?
  • Are the good days of the United States numbered?Is the virtuous circle in which the elite gave rise to the power of the United States being impinged by a vicious one that will enrich and empower a small minority?
  • What is the most effective way to help billions of people out of the quagmire of poverty?   More humanitarian aid from the wealthy nations of the West?  Or, learning from the breakthrough ideas of Acemoglu and Robinson regarding the inter-relationship between political and financial institutions?”

-From the back cover and inside flap of the book

Read more in Greek….


Βιογραφικά στοιχεία των συγγραφέων

Ο Daron Acemoglou κατέχει την ακαδημαϊκή έδρα Killian Professor of Economics στο MIT. Το 2005 τιμήθηκε με το John Bates Clark Medal, το οποίο απονέμεται σε οικονομολόγους κάτω των σαράντα ετών με πολύ σημαντική συνεισφορά στην οικονομική σκέψη και γνώση.Ο πολιτικός επιστήμονας και οικονομολόγος James A. Robinson κατέχει την ακαδημαϊκή έδρα David Florence Professor of Government στο Πανεπιστήμιο Χάρβαρντ. Είναι ένας παγκοσμίου φήμης ειδικός για τη Λατινική Αμερική και την Αφρική και έχει εργαστεί στην Μποτσουάνα, τον Μαυρίκιο, τη Σιέρα Λεόνε και τη Νότια Αφρική.

-Από το αυτί του βιβλίου


 

Κριτικές  - ΠαρουσιάσειςΘανάσης Βασιλείου, Οι πολιτικές παράμετροι της φτώχειας, "Η Καθημερινή"/ "Τέχνες και Γράμματα", 4.5.2014Πάσχος Μανδραβέλης, Είναι οι θεσμοί, ανόητε, "Η Καθημερινή", 12.1.2014


 

Άλλοι ενδιαφέροντες τίτλοι στη βιβλιοθήκη περί οικονομίας, Ευρώπης και πολιτικής:

Αυτοκρατορίες σε πόλεμο, 1911-1923. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 2014. [909.821 ΑΥΤ]Η συνθήκη της Λισσαβώνας: η νέα συνθήκη της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης και το κοινό σχέδιο για το μέλλον της Ευρώπης. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2008. [341.2422 ΣΥΝ]Schmidt, Helmut. Η αυτοδυναμία της Ευρώπης: προοπτικές για τον 21ο αιώνα. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2003. [341.2422 SCH]Wilk, Richard, Lisa C. Cliggett. Οικονομία και πολιτισμός: αρχές οικονομικής ανθρωπολογίας. Αθήνα: Κριτική, 2010. [306.3 WIL]

 

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