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The making of the ancient Greek economy : institutions, markets, and growth in the city-states / Alain Bresson ; translated by Steven Rendall.

By: Bresson, AlainContributor(s): Rendall, Steven [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016Description: xxvi, 620 pages : illustrtions, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691144702 (hardback : alkaline paper)Uniform titles: Économie de la Grèce des cités. English Subject(s): Urban economics | Cities and towns, Ancient -- Greece | HISTORY / Ancient / Greece | HISTORY / Historiography | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History | Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.CDDC classification: 330.938 LOC classification: HC37 | .B7413 2016Other classification: HIS002010 | HIS016000 | BUS023000
Contents:
The economy of ancient Greece : a conceptual framework -- STRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION -- People in their environment -- Energy, economy, and transport cost -- The polis and the economy -- Agricultural production -- The economy of the agricultural world -- Nonagricultural production, capital, and innovation -- The logic of growth -- MARKET AND TRADE -- The institutions of the domestic market -- Money and credit -- City-states, taxes, and trade -- The emporion and the markets -- International trade networks -- Strategies of international trade -- The Greek cities and the market.
Holdings
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Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 37 - Main Room 		G1c BRESS 30700 Not for loan BOOKS-000000023602

Originally published in 2 vols.: Paris : Armand Colin, c2007 and c2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-602) and index.

The economy of ancient Greece : a conceptual framework -- STRUCTURES AND PRODUCTION -- People in their environment -- Energy, economy, and transport cost -- The polis and the economy -- Agricultural production -- The economy of the agricultural world -- Nonagricultural production, capital, and innovation -- The logic of growth -- MARKET AND TRADE -- The institutions of the domestic market -- Money and credit -- City-states, taxes, and trade -- The emporion and the markets -- International trade networks -- Strategies of international trade -- The Greek cities and the market.