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Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory
Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory
Author	Conrad M. Arensberg, Harry W. Pearson, Polányi Károly
Publisher	Henry Regnery
First published	1957; Chicago
Type	Book
Libgen	http://library.lol/main/E33A6A627B5D9B3545243C297C3A5366

Preface

Introductory Note

Birth of the Economy

The Secular Debate on Economic Primitivism

The "Oikos" Theorem: Karl Rodbertus

Karl Bücher and Eduard Meyer

Max Weber and Michael Rostovtzeff

Marketless Trading in Hammurabi's Time

Pseudo-Economy and Inverted Perspective

Problems of the Babylonian Economy

An Early Assyrian Trading Post

Risk-Free Trading

Transactions and Dispositions

The Tamkarum

A Bird's-Eye View of Mesopotamian Economic History

'No Man's Coast': Ports of Trade in The Eastern Mediterranean

Mesopotamia and Egypt

The Hittites

Port of Trade Policies

Symbiosis

Aristotle Discovers The Economy

The Anonymity of the Economy in Early Society

Aristotle's Probings

The Sociological Bent

Natural Trade and Just Price

Exchange of Equivalencies

The Texts

Aztec-Maya; Dahomey; Berber; India

Anthropology as History

The Empirical Approach

Methodological Conclusions

Port of Trade Enclaves in Aztec and Maya Civilizations

The Problem of Aztec-Maya Trade

The Aztec of the Basin of Mexico

The Maya of Yucatan

Gulf of Mexico—Xicalango

Pacific Coast—Xoconusco

Inland—Acalan

Gulf of Honduras

A Port of Trade: Whydah on the Guinea Coast

War and Trade in Native Dahomey

Remote Control of Whydah

Foreigners' Enclave

Administered Trade

Separation of Trade and Market: The Great Market of Whydah

Zobeme, the Native Market

Administered Trade and Local Food Distribution

Explosive Markets: The Berber Highlands

Siba and Makhzen

The Market in the Siba

Safe Conduct

Explosive Markets

Rigor of Market Law

Segmental Anarchy and "Free" Prices

Conclusions

Reciprocity and Redistribution in The Indian Village: Sequel to Some Notable Discussions

The Village Economy

The Nature of Land Revenue

Institution Analysis

The Place of Economics in Societies

The Economy As Instituted Process

The Formal and Substantive Meanings of "Economic

Reciprocity, Redistribution, and Exchange

Forms of Trade, Money Uses, and Market Elements

Sociology and The Substantive View of The Economy

Criticism of Current Sociological Conceptions of the Economy

The Division-of-Labor Conception

The Rational Action Position

The Market Model View

The "Scarcity" Defined Economy

Conclusion of Part 1

The Substantive View of the Economy

The Economic Process and Society

The Instituting of the Economic Process

Locational and Appropriational Types of Economic Action

Conclusion

Parsons and Smelser on The Economy

The Economy Has No Surplus: Critique of A Theory of Development

A Rationalistic Construct

Reifying the Profit Concept

Surplus—The Economic Aspect of Institutional Change

Economic Theory Misplaced: Livelihood In Primitive Society

Economic Anthropology

The Societal Approach

The Use of Economic Theory

A Cross Cultural Economics

The Market in Theory and History

Price-Making Markets

Types of Markets: The Economist's View

Markets in Economic History

Concluding Note