The sustainability and development of ancient economies : analysis and examples /: analysis and examples. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Clement A. Tisdell and Serge Svizzero.
• Authors: Tisdell, C. A (Clement Allan); Svizzero, Serge
• Contents: An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies PART I: ECONOMICS OF HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES Stages of Early Economic Development: Economic Evolution and the Diversity of Societies Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines – Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins’ Hypothesis The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies PART II: THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE TRANSITION TO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURE A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions Alternatives to and a Critique of Economic Optimization Theories as a Determinant of the Transition to Agriculture Contemporary Thought and Childe’s Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution PART III: EVOLUTION OF EARLY ECONOMIES AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Únĕtice Population Disappeared The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 330.901; Economic history -- To 500; Agriculture, Ancient; Industries -- History; Commerce -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000910636; 9781000910629
• Related ISBNs: 9781032277998
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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