Beginnings and Mesopotamia
REQUIRED
(In addition to the notes, 15 pages)
Other notes (similar to previous)
- * Slides (Mesopotamia and part I on Egypt)
References:
- * Mayshar Joram, Omer Moav and Zvika Neeman (2017). “Geography, Transparency, and Institutions,” American Political Science Review, 111 (3) 622-636. (required part: trhe relevant text for the assignment)
- * Manning, Joseph (2010). “The Economic Foundations of the Ptolemaic State,” Journal of Economic History, 70(2), 363–386.
- * Bowles, Samuel and Jung-Kyoo Choi (2019), "The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution and the Origins of Private Property," Journal of Political Economy, 127, 2186-222, (only the parts that were relevant for the assignment and the class discussion).
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
Some of this material is used in the lectures. It is written for professionals, not for the level of the class. You may have a look, but you also may safely ignore it.
- * Jursa, Michael and Juan Carlos Moreno García (2015). "The Ancient Near East and Egypt," in Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel, eds., Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, Cambridge University Press, Chapter, 4, 121-129: "Fiscal structures in ancient Mesopotamia..
- Allen, Robert, C., Mattia C. Bertazzini, and Leander Heldring (2023). “The Economic Origins of Governments,” American Economic Review, 113(10): 2507-2545.
- Ur, Jason (2013). " Patterns of Settlement in Sumer an Akkad," Chapter 7 in Harriet Crawford, ed, The Sumerian World, Routledge.
- Garfinkle, Joe (2013). "Ancient Near Eastern City-States", Peter Fibiger Bang and Walter Scheidel, eds, chapter 3 in The Oxford Handbook of the state in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
- Bin Liu et al. (2018). “Earliest hydraulic enterprise in China, 5,100 years ago,” PNAS, 115(4), 13637-13642.