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...

Three forms of observation -- Agrarian landscapes -- Packaging agricultural variety -- Measuring stocks, conjecturing flows -- Stakeholder statistics -- Observing typicality -- Budget studies -- Epilogue