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The Sustainability and Development of Ancient Economies: Analysis and Examples book cover

1st Edition

The Sustainability and Development of Ancient Economies Analysis and Examples

By Clement A. Tisdell, Serge Svizzero Copyright 2024
256 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity. New ideas are presented about theories of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, including Childe’s theory of... Read more
  1. An Overview of Our Perspectives on the Economic Development and Sustainability of Ancient Societies

    2. PART I: ECONOMICS OF HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETIES

  2. Early Economic Development: The Diversity of Societies and Their Economic Evolution

  3. Traditional Economies of Australian Aborigines – Their Sustainability, Desirability and Sahlins’ Hypothesis

  4. The Sustainability and Economic Development Options of Foragers: New Economic Analysis

  5. The Lengthy Endurance of Hunting and Gathering Economies

    6. PART II: THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE TRANSITION TO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURE

  6. A Reconsideration of Theories about the Commencement of Agriculture and New Suggestions

  7. How Well Do Models of Rational (Economic) Optimizing Behaviour Explain the Transition to Agriculture?

  8. Contemporary Thought and Childe’s Theory of Economic Development and the Agricultural Revolution

    9. PART III: EVOLUTION OF EARLY ECONOMIES AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE

  9. Analysis of Why Some Agrarian Societies Avoided the Malthusian Trap and Developed

  10. Economic and Ecological Reasons Why the Silesian Únĕtice Population Disappeared

  11. The Palatial Economic Development of Minoan and Mycenaean States

  12. Barter and the Origins of Money: Insights from the Ancient Palatial Economies of Mesopotamia and Egypt

  13. Phoenicia: Its Economic Development Before its use of Coinage

Biography

Clement A. Tisdell is Professor Emeritus of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Serge Svizzero is Professor in the Faculté de Droit et d’Economie at the Université de La Réunion, France.

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