The earliest economic growth in world history proceedings of the Berlin workshop / edited by David A. Warburton.
| Other author | Warburton, David. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten ; Peeters : Leuven, 2022. |
| Description | xx, 308 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Portion of title | Proceedings of the Berlin workshop |
| Series | PIHANS, 0926-9568 ; volume CXXXIII Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 133. ^A713149 |
| 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. |
| Summary | "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 demonstrated that the route to the economies of the 20th century AD was determined by what happened in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries AD. In this sense, one can point out that the context of the Industrial Revolution dominates thought about economic growth. By contrast, from the standpoint of finance, it can be suggested that the route to the 21st century AD began in Mesopotamia in the fifth millennium BC. The issue of the difference stands at the centre of what causes economic growth - and that is the principle concern of the discussions in this volume, the outcome of the workshop Economic Growth in Antiquity, held in Berlin in 2016." -- Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023394067 |
| ISBN | 9789042948129 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9042948124 (paperback) |
| Standard identifier# | 9789042948129 |
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