Bad Year Economics - Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty

Zusammenfassung Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology! anthropology! and ancient and modern history! the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting! farming and pastoralism! across ancient states! empires! and modern nation states. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: cultural responses to risk and uncertainty P. Halstead and J. O'Shea; 2. The spirit of survival: cultural responses to resource variability in North Alaska L. Minc and K. Smith; 3. Saving it for later: storage by prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe P. Rowley-Conwy and M. Zvelebil; 4. The role of wild resources in small-scale agricultural systems: tales from the lakes and the plains J. O'Shea; 5. The economy has a normal surplus: economic stability and social change among early farming communities of Thessaly, Greece P. Halstead; 6. Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger K. Legge; 7. The grandfathers and grand theories: the hierarchised ordering of responses to hazard in a Greek rural community H. Forbes; 8. Risk and the polis: the evolution of institutionalised responses to food supply problems in the ancient Greek state P. Garnsey and I. Morris; 9. Monitoring interannual variability: an example from the period of early state development in southwestern Iran H. Wright, R. Redding and S. Pollock; 10. Public intervention in the food supply in pre-industrial Europe W. Jongman and R. Dekker; 11. Conclusion: bad year economics J.O'Shea and P. Halstead; References; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: &apos, Paul Halstead, Paul (University of Sheffield) O''''shea Halstead, Paul O&apos Halstead, Paul O''''shea Halstead, John Shea
• Con la collaborazione di: Francoise Audouze (Editore), Cyprian Broodbank (Editore), Paul Halstead (Editore), Halstead Paul (Editore), John O'Shea (Editore), O'Shea John (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521611923
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61192-3
• Pagine: 160
• Serie: New Directions in Archaeology; New Directions in Archaeology
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy