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ANCIENT ECONOMIC THOUGHT

This collection explores the interrelationship between economic practice and

intellectual constructs in a number of ancient cultures. Each chapter presents

a new, richer understanding of the preoccupation of the ancients with specific

economic problems including distribution, civic pride, management and

uncertainty and how they were trying to resolve them. The research is based

around the different artifacts and texts of the ancient East Indian, Hebraic,

Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and emerging European cultures which remain for

our consideration today: religious works, instruction manuals, literary and

historical writings, epigrapha and legal documents. In looking at such items

it becomes clear what a different exercise it is to look forward, from the

earliest texts and artifacts of any culture, to measure the achievements of

thinking in the areas of economics, than it is to take the more frequent route

and look backward, beginning with the modern conception of economic

systems and theory creation. Presenting fascinating insights into the

economic thinking of ancient cultures, this volume will enhance the

reawakening of interest in ancient economic history and thought. It will be of

great interest to scholars of economic thought and the history of ideas.

B.B.Price is Professor of Ancient and Medieval History at York

University, Toronto, and is currently doing research and teaching as visiting

professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF

ECONOMICS

1 Economics as Literature

Willie Henderson

2 Socialism and Marginalism in Economics 1870–1930

Edited by Ian Steedman

3 Hayek’s Political Economy:

The Socio-economics of Order

Steve Fleetwood

4 On the Origins of Classical Economics:

Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith

Tony Aspromourgos

5 The Economics of Joan Robinson

Edited by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Luigi Pasinetti and

Alesandro Roncaglia

6 The Evolutionist Economics of Léon Walras

Albert Jolink

7 Keynes and the “Classics”:

A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken Identities

Michel Verdon

8 The History of Game Theory, Vol. 1:

From the Beginnings to 1945

Robert W. and Mary Ann Dimand

9 The Economics of W.S.Jevons

Sandra Peart

10 Gandhi’s Economic Thought

Ajit K Dasgupta

11 Equilibrium and Economic Theory

Edited by Giovanni Caravale

12 Austrian Economics in Debate

Edited by Willem Keizer, Bert Tieben and Rudy van Zipj

13 Ancient Economic Thought

Edited by B.B.Price

ANCIENT ECONOMIC

THOUGHT

Volume 1

Edited by B.B.Price

London and New York

First published 1997

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Ancient Economic Thought/edited by B.B.Price

p. cm.

“Many of the chapters…issued for a conference at Massachusetts

Institute of Technology in 1994”–Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Economics—History—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Economic

history—To 500. I.Price, B.B.(Betsey Barker).

HB77.A63 1996

330′.09–dc20 96–33564

ISBN 0-203-98170-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-415-14930-4 (Print Edition)

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