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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10778| Title: | Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal |
| Authors: | Dale, G |
| Keywords: | Mesopotamia;Trade;Karl Polanyi;Markets;Money |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Citation: | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 56(2): 159 - 188, (2013) |
| Abstract: | In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon his published works as well as unpublished documents in the Karl Polanyi and Michael Polanyi archives. Finally, I provide a critical assessment of the merits and demerits of his contribution, with reference to Assyriological research published in the decades that have elapsed since his death in 1964. |
| URI: | http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685209-12341299 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10778 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341299 |
| ISSN: | 0022-4995 1568-5209 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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