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PRIVATIZATION IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND CLASSICAL WORLD

Michael Hudson & Baruch Levine eds.

 

Peabody Museum Bulletin 5, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard Univ., 1996, 308 pgs.,

 
 

Reviewer comment:
This is a collection of the presentations by 9 expert participants in a colloquium focused on study and publication of economic aspects of ancient Middle Eastern societies (Mesopotamia) and to a lesser degree classical Greece and Rome. The participants, led by Michael Hudson, formed a "Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies' and propose to create a journal, Ancient Economies.

 

 

Introduction - Privatization: A Survey of the Unresolved Controversies.

 

 

Chapter 1 - Michael Hudson: The Dynamics of Privatization from the Bronze Age to the Present

 
 

Chapter 2 - C. C. Lamberg-Karovsky: TheArcheaeological Evidence for International Commerce: Public and/or Private Enterprise in Mesopotamia

 
 

Chapter 3 - Deitz Otto Edzard: Private Land Ownership and its Relation to "God" and the "State' in Sumer and Akkad

 
 

Chapter 4 - Giorgio Buccellati: The Role of Socio-Political Factors in the Emergence of "Public" and" Private' Domains in Early Mesopotamia

 
 

Chapter 5 - Maynard P. Maidman: "Privatization: and Private Property at Nuzi: The Limits of Evidence

 
 

Chapter 6 - Michael Heltzer: The Symbiosis of the Public and Private Sectors in Ugarit, Phoenicia, and Palestine

 
 

Chapter 7 - Muhammed Dandamtayev: An Age of Privatization in Ancient Mesopotamia

 
 

Chapter 8 - Baruch A. Levine: Farewell to the Ancient Near East: Evaluating Biblical References to Ownership of Land in Comparative Perspective

 
 

Chapter 9 - Richard E. Mitchell: Ager Publicus Public Property and Private Wealth during the Roman Republic

 
 

Michael Hudson: Summary Review, Early Privatization and its Consequences

 
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Amanda Podany - Brotherhood of Kings

 
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Amanda Podany - Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Crale of Civilization

 
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Carl Wittfoegel - Oriental Despotism

 
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David Landes, Joel Mokyr & William Baumol eds., - The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from
Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

 
 

Michael Hudson - 'Entrepreneurs: From the Near Eastern takeoff to the Roman Collapse' -IN Landes

 
 

Cornelia Wunsch - 'Neo_Babylonian Entrepreneurs' - IN Landes

 
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David Graeber - Debt

 
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J. G. Manning & Ian Morris - The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models

 
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Alan Bresson - The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

 
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Peter Temin - The Roman Market Economy

 
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Michael Hudson - Debt and Economic renewal in the Ancient Near East

 
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Hudson, Michael - The Archeology of Money

 
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Hudson, Michael -

 
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Mesopotamia - Wikipedia Entry

 
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Facts and Details - Mesopotamian Economics and Money

 

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