Complexity economics : building a new approach to ancient economic history / Koenraad Verboven, editor.
Verboven, Koenraad, editor.
2021
HC26 .C66 2021
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Title
Complexity economics : building a new approach to ancient economic history / Koenraad Verboven, editor.
ISBN
9783030478988 (electronic bk.)
303047898X (electronic bk.)
3030478971 (hardcover)
9783030478971 (hardcover)
9783030479008 (pbk.)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47898-8
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-47898-8 doi
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HC26 .C66 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.901072
Summary
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.
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Verboven, Koenraad, editor.
Series
Palgrave studies in ancient economies.
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Complexity economics.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Finding a new approach to ancient proxy data
Part I- Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies
Chapter 2: Playing by whose rules? Institutional resilience, conflict and change in the Roman economy
Chapter 3: Networks as Proxies: a relational approach towards economic complexity in the Roman period
Chapter 4: Evaluating the potential of computational modelling for informing debates on Roman economic integration
Chapter 5: Visualising Roman institutional environments for exchange as a complex system
PART II- Urban Systems
Chapter 6: Social complexity and complexity economics. Studying socio-economic systems at Duzen Tepe and Sagalassos (SW Turkey)
Chapter 7: A method for estimating Roman population sizes from urban survey contexts: an application in central Adriatic Italy
Chapter 8: Complexity and urban hierarchy of ancient urbanism: the cities of Roman Asia Minor
PART III- Epidemics
Chapter 9: Disease proxies and the diagnosis of the late Antonine economy
Chapter 10: Measuring and Comparing Economic Interaction Based on the Paths and Speed of Infections. The Case Study of the Spread of the Justinianic Plague and Black Death.

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