/asmagazine/ en /asmagazine/2016/12/19/history-market-performance-ancient-babylonia-modern-world <span>A History of Market Performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-12-19T14:29:32-07:00" title="Monday, December 19, 2016 - 14:29">Mon, 12/19/2016 - 14:29</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/asmagazine/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/history.market_0.jpg?h=60720d57&amp;itok=vCf-oRU_" width="1200" height="600" alt="A History of Market Performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/asmagazine/taxonomy/term/346"> Books </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/asmagazine/taxonomy/term/572" hreflang="en">Carol Shiue</a> <a href="/asmagazine/taxonomy/term/130" hreflang="en">Economics</a> </div> <span>Carol Shiue</span> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/asmagazine/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/history.market.jpg?itok=kGE26fX0" width="750" height="1188" alt="A History of Market Performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World"> </div> </div> <strong>About the author:</strong><a href="http://spot.colorado.edu/~shiue/" rel="nofollow">Carol H. Shiue</a> is the author of the chapter: "The organization and scope of grain markets in Qing China (1644-1911)" and is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder.<p><strong>Book description: </strong>This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.</p><p>Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth. However, this is the first study to examine market performance as a whole, over such a large time period. Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this international set of contributors are for the first time able to offer an in-depth study of market performance over a period of 2,500 years.</p><p>The contributions focus on the market of staple crops, as they were crucial goods in these societies. Over this entire period, all papers provide a similar conceptual and methodological framework resting on a common definition of market performance combined with qualitative and quantitative analyses resting on new and improved price data. In this way, the book is able to combine analysis of the Babylonian period with similar work on the Roman, Early-and Late Medieval and Early Modern period.</p><p>Bringing together input from assyriologists, ancient historians, economic historians and economists, this volume will be crucial reading for all those with an interest in ancient history, economic history and economics.</p><p><strong>Publication date:</strong> Aug. 21, 2014</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong><a href="https://www.routledge.com/A-History-of-Market-Performance-From-Ancient-Babylonia-to-the-Modern-World/Van-der-Spek-van-Zanden-van-Leeuwen/p/book/9780415635448" rel="nofollow">Routledge</a></p><p><strong>Amazon.com: </strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/History-Market-Performance-Babylonia-Explorations/dp/0415635446" rel="nofollow">Read more on Amazon.com</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:29:32 +0000 Anonymous 1908 at /asmagazine