Bad Year Economics by Paul Halstead

Bad Year Economics by Paul Halstead

Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient and modern history, the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting, farming and pastoralism, across ancient states, empires, and modern nation states. The aim, however, is a common one: to analyse in each case the structure of variability - particularly with regard to food supply - and review the range of responses offered by individual human communities. These responses commonly exploit various forms of mobility, economic diversification, storage, and exchange to deploy local or temporary abundance as a defence against shortage. Different levels of response are used at different levels of risk. Their success is fundamental to human survival and their adoption has important ramifications throughout cultural behaviour.

Halstead, Paul: - Paul Halstead is professor of archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the archaeology (including zooarchaeology) of early farmers and early complex societies in Greece and the ethnoarchaeology of traditional farming and herding in Mediterranean Europe.

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ISBN 13	9780521611923
ISBN 10	052161192X
Titel	Bad Year Economics
Autor	Paul Halstead
Serie	New Directions In Archaeology
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-11-11
Seitenanzahl	160
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