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9783030478971: Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)
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ISBN 10: 3030478971 ISBN 13: 9783030478971
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the shared cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and the symbolic ways in which these are reproduced remain invisible in the material record. This book explores ways to bring both disciplines closer together by building a theoretical and methodological framework to evaluate and integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic history research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that complexity economics, based on system theory, offers a promising way forward. 


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Koenraad Verboven is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient social and economic history, including the monograph The Economy of Friends: Economic Aspects of Amicitia and Patronage in the Late Republic and six edited volumes on Roman economic and legal history.

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Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the shared cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and the symbolic ways in which these are reproduced remain invisible in the material record. This book explores ways to bring both disciplines closer together by building a theoretical and methodological framework to evaluate and integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic history research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that complexity economics, based on system theory, offers a promising way forward. 


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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3030478971
ISBN 13 
9783030478971
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
382
Herausgeber
Verboven Koenraad
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