Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052161192X
• ISBN13: 9780521611923
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"