Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History 1st Edition Koenraad Verboven

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030478971
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030478971
• Author(s): Koenraad Verboven

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Finding a New Approach to Ancient Proxy Data
Part I. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies
2. Playing by Whose Rules? Institutional Resilience, Conflict and Change in the Roman Economy
3. Networks as Proxies: A Relational Approach Towards Economic Complexity in the Roman Period
4. Evaluating the Potential of Computational Modelling for Informing Debates on Roman Economic Integration
5. Visualising Roman Institutional Environments for Exchange as a Complex System
Part II. Urban Systems
6. Social Complexity and Complexity Economics: Studying Socio-economic Systems at Düzen Tepe and Sagalassos (SW Turkey)
7. A Method for Estimating Roman Population Sizes from Urban Survey Contexts: An Application in Central Adriatic Italy
8. Complexity and Urban Hierarchy of Ancient Urbanism: The Cities of Roman Asia Minor
Part III. Epidemics
9. Disease Proxies and the Diagnosis of the Late Antonine Economy
10. Measuring and Comparing Economic Interaction Based on the Paths

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