Introduction: Finding a New Approach to Ancient Proxy Data
| Autor: | Koenraad Verboven |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Verboven, Koenraad |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Complexity Economics ISBN: 9783030478971 Complexity economics : building a new approach to ancient economic history |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-47898-8_1 |
| Popis: | This book is about a big problem in economic history research: how to study economic development in societies that lack archival records or written sources suitable for cliometric analyses? In the past decades economic archaeology has made huge advances in its abilities to identify, collect, process, and interpret material remains as proxy-data for economic interactions and performance. Ancient economic historians eagerly incorporated these proxy-data in their arguments but found them impossible to translate into familiar economic indicators. Archaeologists in turn struggled to analyse their datasets in the neoclassical and new-institutional framework favoured by economic historians. Making progress in ancient economic history research requires bridging the gap between both disciplines. This book discusses complexity economics as a new framework to integrate proxy-data from the archaeological record into both economic history and archaeology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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