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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: R.J. Van der Spek , Jan Luiten van Zanden , Bas van Leeuwen (Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367867300ISBN 10: 0367867303 Pages: 592 Publication Date: 12 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Markets from Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World. An Introduction R.J. van der Spek, Bas van Leeuwen and J.L. van Zanden Part I: Methodology 2. Market performance in early economies: concepts and empirics: With an application to Babylon.P. Foldvari and B. van Leeuwen, 3. Analysis of Historical Time Series with Messy Features:: The Case of Commodity Prices in Babylonia Lennart Hoogerheide and S.J. Koopman 4. Market performance and welfare: why price instability hurts K.G. Persson, Part II: Market Performance in Babylonia and the Mediterranean in Antiquity 5. Market Performance and Market Integration in Babylonia in the ‘Long Sixth Century’ BC Michael Jursa 6. Prices and related data from Northern Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic periods, ca. 480-300 BC J. Hackl and R. Pirngruber 7. Climate, war and economic development: the case of second-century BC Babylon J.A.M. Huijs, R. Pirngruber and B. van Leeuwen 8. Mediterranean grain prices in classical antiquity Sitta von Reden and Dominic Rathbone 9. Soldiers and booze, the rise and decline of a Roman market economy in north-western Europe Eltjo Buringh and Maarten Bosker Part III: Market Performance From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century 10. Price volatility and markets in late medieval and early modern Europe Victoria Bateman 11. Markets and Price Fluctuations in England and Ireland, 1785-1913 L. Kennedy and Peter Solar 12. Market integration in China, AD 960 - 1644 Liu Guanglin 13. The organization and scope of grain markets in Qing China (1644-1911) Carol H. Shiue IV: Money and Markets 14. Circulation of Coins and Economic History in Syria and Mesopotamia in the sixth to first centuries BCReviewsAuthor InformationProf. Dr. R.J. van der Spek is professor of Ancient Mediterranean and West-Asiatic History at the VU University (Vrije Universiteit), Amsterdam. Prof. Dr. J.L. van Zanden is faculty professor of global economic history at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Dr. Bas van Leeuwen is senior researcher at Warwick University, UK and postdoc researcher at the VU University Amsterdam and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |