The sustainability and development of ancient economies : analysis and examples / Clement A. Tisdell and Serge Svizzero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tisdell, C. A. (Clement Allan), author.

Svizzero, Serge, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge explorations in economic history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--To 500.

Economic history.

Agriculture, Ancient.

Industries--History.

Industries.

Commerce--History.

Commerce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Clement A. Tisdell is Professor Emeritus of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. Serge Svizzero is Professor in the Faculté de Droit et d'Economie at the Université de La Réunion, France.

Contents:

<OL><LI>An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies</LI><B><P>Part I: Economics of Hunting and Gathering Societies</P></B><P><LI>Stages of Early Economic Development: Economic Evolution and the Diversity of Societies</LI><P></P><P><LI>Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines

Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins' Hypothesis</LI><P></P><P><LI>The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis </LI><P></P><P><LI>The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies</LI><P></P><B><P>Part II: The Agricultural Revolution: the Transition to and the Establishment of Agriculture</P></B><P><LI>A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions</LI><P></P><P><LI>Alternatives to and a Critique of Economic Optimization Theories as a Determinant of the Transition to Agriculture</LI><P></P><P><LI>Contemporary Thought and Childe's Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution </LI><P></P><B><P>Part III: Evolution of Early Economies After the Commencement of Agriculture</P></B><P><LI>Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed</LI><P></P><P><LI>Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Únĕtice Population Disappeared</LI><P></P><P><LI>The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States</LI><P></P><P><LI>Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt </LI><P></P><P><LI>Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage</LI><P></P></OL>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Tisdell, C. A. Sustainability and development of ancient economies

ISBN:

9781003294146

1003294146

9781000910636

1000910636

1000910628

9781000910629

Publisher Number:

40032013392

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