Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies: Archaeology, Comparative History, Models and Institutions

Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies: Archaeology, Comparative History, Models and Institutions
ISBN-10
8872284880
ISBN-13
9788872284889
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Edipuglia srl
Authors
Peter Fibiger Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi, Harmut G. Ziche

Description

Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies is a collection of essays which focuses on the art of questioning; it is about ideas and analytical experiment. Ancient economic history has developed enormously since the publication of M.I. Finley’s The Ancient Economy in 1973. Much new material has been brought to bear on the debate on the character of economic life in the Greek and Roman world. But, at the same time, discussions have been going round in circles. This is because not enough attention has been given to the questions ancient historians ask and the concepts with which they approach the economy. In this collection, an attempt is made to renew the terms of the debate by presenting a wide variety of new analytical approaches to ancient economic history ranging from literary theory, cross-cultural comparison, statistical analysis of archaeological data to neo-institutional economics and model-building.

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