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Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East : Diversity in Collapse and Resilience

Erdkamp, Paul (ed.); Manning, Joseph G. (ed.); … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

Roman period -- Chapter 15: Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world? Global warming as a comparative framework … families in the Roman World -- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement … Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. He teaches Ancient History, specializing in the Roman World, with a particular interest in economy …

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Il commercio internazionale nel mondo antico

Succa, Alessio - 2018

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A history of market performance : from ancient Babylonia to the modern world

Leeuwen, Bas van (contributor); … - 2015

pt. 1. Methodology -- pt. 2. Market performance in Babylonia and the Mediterranean in antiquity -- pt. 3. Market performance from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century -- pt. 4. Markets and money -- pt. 5. Long-term patterns -- pt. 6. Conclusion.

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Kama Ayurveda : Globalizing the Ancient Ayurveda

Saxena, Nitu - 2021

Kama Ayurveda Private Limited was co-founded by four individuals who believed in the ancient healing power of Ayurveda. They created products with natural ingredients and launched a range of herbal products in partnership with the 100-year-old Arya Vaidya Pharmacy of Coimbatore. Their products...

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Silk Roads to Riches : Persistence Along an Ancient Trade Network

Ahmad, Zofia; Chicoine, Luke - 2021

The Silk Roads were a decentralized network of trade routes that connected ancient cities across Eurasia. Goods, ideas, people, and technology moved along the roads for over 1,500 years. Using a detailed georeferenced map of the entire trade network, this paper finds that areas within 50 KM of...

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Pre-industrial Inequality

Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pre-industrial societies, for which data were available, using what are known as social tables. It...

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A history of market performance : from ancient Babylonia to the modern world

Spek, Robartus J. van der (ed.); … - 2015 - 1. publ.

"This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth....

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The Rise of Empires : The Political Economy of Innovation

Ramesh, Sangaralingam - 2018

This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...

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Suspicions of Markets : Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century

Rutherford, Donald - 2016

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...

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Ideen über die Politik, den Verkehr, und den Handel der vornehmsten Völker der alten Welt <engl.>

Heeren, Arnold Hermann Ludwig - 1833

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