Acknowledgements
Contributors
Sven Günther: Introduction: Were the Ancients Rational Actors? A View from a Graeco-Roman Historian
Kathryn Kelley: Trouble Brewing in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Thibaud Nicolas: A Rational God? Rationality and Religion in the Ebabbar of Sippar, an Old Babylonian Temple
Christian Canu Højgaard: Rational Actors and the Ancient Israelite Jubilee Legislation
Daniel Silvermintz: A City Fit for Business: The Justice of Moneymaking in the Republic’s Healthy City
Lothar Willms: Adam Smith, Plato, and the Stoics. The Birth of Modern Economic Rationality and the Classical Heritage
Michael Leese: Hoarding and Rationality in the Ancient Economy
José Remesal Rodríguez: Old Ideals and Adaptations to a New Reality. Columella’s De Re Rustica, a Survival Handbook for an Elite?
Roland Ferenczi: “The gold-possessing market where flags of the old town cast a shadow”. Some Remarks on Maritime Trade, Markets, and Money in the Early Cēra Panegyrics
Jason Hagler: Are the Moderns Rational? The View from Qin
Bertram Schefold: Land and Credit in the History of Economic Thought. Traditional China and Premodern Europe: Dian and “pactum antichriseos”
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