In this book Reinhard Pirngruber provides a full reassessment of the economic structures and market performance in Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. His approach is informed by the theoretical insights of New Institutional Economics and draws heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Global patterns of regional industrialization -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Regional industrialization in England and Wales since the...

This paper reconstructs GDP from the output side for medieval and early modern Britain. In contrast to the long run stagnation of living standards suggested by daily real wage rates, output-based GDP per capita exhibits modest but positive trend growth. One way of reconciling the two series is...