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As one of the most enduring icons of economic life, money has been a common feature and central focus in complex societies from Antiquity to the present. It gained weight as a key feature of Mediterranean economies in the course of the first millennium BCE, mostly in the form of coinage. But money i...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-459542021-01-05T01:33:21Z Politics of Value: New Approaches to Early Money and the State Heymans, Elon D. Termeer, Marleen money economy bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy As one of the most enduring icons of economic life, money has been a common feature and central focus in complex societies from Antiquity to the present. It gained weight as a key feature of Mediterranean economies in the course of the first millennium BCE, mostly in the form of coinage. But money is more than just coin, and its significance is more pervasive than just to the strict sphere of “the economy”. In the ancient Mediterranean, money and its rise to prominence have been predominantly associated with the state. But can money only emerge under state authority? This volume questions the assumed relation between the spread of early forms of money and the state and draws attention to different ways in which money as an innovation could be anchored and socially embedded. 2021-01-04T10:51:26Z 2021-01-04T10:51:26Z 2020 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45954 eng Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World application/pdf Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 574-29-90348-1-10-20200921.pdf Propylaeum eBooks 10.11588/propylaeum.574 10.11588/propylaeum.574 07794503-d496-4160-a4ba-19188843e380 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 33 81 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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