A History of Market Performance (eBook, ePUB)

From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World
Redaktion: Spek, R. J. van der; Leeuwen, Bas van; Zanden, Jan Luiten van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317918493
• Artikelnr.: 41502768

Autorenporträt

Prof. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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 BC Frédérique Duyrat 15. A frog's eye view of the Roman
market: the Batavian case. J.G. Aarts 16. The circulation of money and the
behaviour of prices in Medieval and early modern England Nick Mayhew 17.
Money supply and the price mechanism: the interaction of money, prices and
wages in Beijing in the long 19th century Peng Kaixiang Part V: Long-Term
Patterns 18. Risk aversion and storage in autarkic societies: from
Babylonian times until the era of globalization B. van Leeuwen and P.
Foldvari 19. Growing silver and changing prices: the development of the
money stock in ancient Babylonia and medieval England R.J. van der Spek, B.
van Leeuwen and P. Földvári 20. Long-run patterns in market performance in
the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to c. AD 1800
B. van Leeuwen, P. Foldvari and J.L. van Zanden VI: Conclusion 21. Markets
from Babylon to Belfast. Some concluding remarks R.J. van der Spek, B. van
Leeuwen, J.L. van Zanden