@article{1432693,
      recid = {1432693},
      author = {Verboven, Koenraad,},
      title = {Complexity economics : building a new approach to ancient  economic history /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) :},
      abstract = {Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have  boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly  enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret  material remains as proxies for economic interactions and  performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new  institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still  have great difficulty talking with each other. There is no  reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the  economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the  shared cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and  the symbolic ways in which these are reproduced remain  invisible in the material record. This book explores ways  to bring both disciplines closer together by building a  theoretical and methodological framework to evaluate and  integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic history  research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by  neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that  complexity economics, based on system theory, offers a  promising way forward.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1432693},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47898-8},
}