Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia

Informationen zum Autor Reinhard Pirngruber is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Wien, Austria, working on a project dedicated to the diplomatics and palaeography of Neo- and Late-Babylonian archival documents. Klappentext This book devises an innovative way to analyse Babylonian commodity price data in its historical context using formal statistical analysis. Zusammenfassung This book provides a full reassessment of the economic structures and market performance in Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. The approach is informed by New Institutional Economics and draws heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well as providing the first exhaustive contextualisation of the price data contained in the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The economy of late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia: state of the problem, methodology and sources; Part I. Structure: 2. Some key developments in first-millennium Babylonia; 3. Land, labour and capital: the factors of production; 4. Price volatility and storage; Part II. Performance: 5. A price history of Babylonia, c.400-c.140 BC; 6. Historical events in a quantitative analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Reinhard Pirngruber, Reinhard (Universitat Wien Pirngruber, Pirngruber Reinhard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107106062
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10606-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory