1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482969303321

Titolo

Complexity Economics : Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History / / edited by Koenraad Verboven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030478988

303047898X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 363 p. 70 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies, , 2752-3306

Disciplina

330.9

330.0901

Soggetti

Economic history

Urban economics

Game theory

Europe - History - To 476

Archaeology

Economic History

Urban Economics

Game Theory

History of Ancient Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 Düzen 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00036869

Autore

Pennacchietti, Fabrizio A.

Titolo

Susanna nel deserto : riflessi di un racconto biblico nella cultura arabo-islamica / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Torino], : Zamorani, c1998 125 p. ; 22 cm

ISBN

88-7158-066-4

Classificazione

ARA VI ABX

Soggetti

Letteratura araba - Influssi della Bibbia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia