van Leeuwen, Bas; Földvári, Peter; Pirngruber, Reinhard - In: Journal of Global History 6 (2011) 02, pp. 169-193
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and...