The earliest economic growth in world history : proceedings of the Berlin workshop /

"Most of today's approaches to growth are expressed in terms related to goods, innovations, savings, technology, etc., and all are related to modern thought and recent historical developments. From the standpoint of technology and production, the economic historian Robert C. Allen has demo...

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Other Authors: Warburton, David (Editor)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Peeters : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten ; Leuven, 2022.

Series: Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 133.
PIHANS ; 133.

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Call Number: DS41 .N37 v.133

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the workshop on economic growth in antiquity /
  • David A. Warburton
  • Transformations from the Neolithic to the Bronze age in Greece : a model of a household in an egalitarian Neolithic village /
  • Donald W. Jones
  • Economic growth and development in the ancient Near East /
  • Giacomo Benati
  • The golden interval of old Assyrian trade (2000-1700 BC) /
  • Jan Gerrit Dercksen
  • Silver, markets and growth in Pharaonic Egypt /
  • Juan Carlos Moreno García
  • The political economy of foreign labour in Pharaonic Egypt, 2700-1069 BCE : an assessment of impacts on northeast African and southwest Asian societies /
  • Christian Langer
  • Some thoughts on economic progress, innovation and growth in southern Mesopotamia /
  • Johannes Renger
  • Economic growth in early Mesopotamia : general considerations and some specific examples /
  • Piotr Steinkeller
  • Postface : a perspective on the theory and history of economic growth /
  • David A. Warburton.