Trade, Traders and the Ancient City

Parkins, Helen; Smith, Christopher

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“…Trade would i therefore have been a democracy-promoting factor for Athens (the opposite would have held for grain-exporting city-states, where trade would have decreased and increased ). Overall, i r however, it appears that trade was not very important in ancient Greece at the time when democracy developed (Garnsey, Hopkins, and Whitaker 1983;Parkins and Smith 1998). creasingly well defined, and investment in olive production increasingly important. This occurred because two factors caused to increase: the settlement i of vacant land driven by population growth and a change in olive production technology.…”

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The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

Fleck

Hanssen

2006

The Journal of Law and Economics

119

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. AbstractThis paper seeks to provide an improved understanding of the origins of democracy. It begins by developing a theoretical model to demonstrate how exogenous economic conditions can influence the incentives to establish democratic institutions. The model predicts that democratic institutions will expand where they mitigate important timeinconsistency problems and, therefore, encourage investment. Exogenous conditions determine the magnitude of those time-inconsistency problems and, hence, the likelihood of democracy. A comparison of ancient Greek city-states suggests that the conditions under which democracy first emerged support the model. Other potential applications are discussed.

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Section: B the Rise And Fall Of Democracy In Athensmentioning

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The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

Fleck

Hanssen

2006

The Journal of Law and Economics

119

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“…For prehistory, see (Ibáñez et al 2018;Bakker et al 2018;Wendling 2013;Kenoyer, Price, and Burton 2013;Parkinson, Nakassis, and Galaty 2013;Parker 2012;Mannion 2011;McIntosh 2011;McGeough 2011;Khalidi 2010;Earle and Kristiansen 2010;Dillian and White 2009;Michailidou and Dogan 2008;Algaze 2009;Mark 1998;Kenoyer 1997). For ancient history see (Morris 1992;Andersen 1997;Schallin 1997;Parkins and Smith 1998;Boardman 1999;Creekmore and Fisher 2014;Barjamovic et al 2017). There is even some fragmentary literary evidence on the role of marketplaces, such as the epic of Gilgamesh noting people collecting at the marketplace of Uruk and the word 'agora' (described in Oeconomicus) translating to both 'gathering place' and 'marketplace'.…”

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Agglomeration and the Extent of the Market: An Experimental Investigation Into Spatially Coordinated Exchange

Adamson

2018

SSRN Journal

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How and why do agglomerations emerge? While economic historians emphasize trade and economic geographers emphasize variety, we still do not understand the role of coordination. I fill this gap by creating a pure-exchange location coordination game and then testing the model in a laboratory experiment. Although there is a huge strategy space and multiple equilibria, the model predicts that marketplaces can emerge as a resilient solution to a highly complex problem of coordinating a multi-coincidence of wants and locations. In the experiment, I find individuals tend to coalesce purely to coordinate exchange, that individuals re-agglomerate at the same locations, and that these location choices aggregate to create a Zipf population distribution. I also test two agglomeration mechanisms by exogenously varying the number of different goods in the economy and whether traders residences are land-tied or not. I find that there is more agglomeration in economies with a larger variety of goods, that being land-tied reduces agglomeration, and that being land-tied magnifies the effect of variety.

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“…History is replete with early forerunners to modern globalisation. Ancient peoples everywhere traded what they had for necessities and other goods that they could not produce themselves (Parkins & Smith, 1998;Thompson, 2006). Some 3000 to 4000 years ago, long-distance trade was already occurring in the Mediterranean region and in Central and East Asia.…”

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Introduction to the Handbook of Globalisation and Tourism

Timothy¹

2019

Handbook of Globalisation and Tourism

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Globalisation is the process by which the world becomes a smaller place. It refers to the linking of companies, governments, and people through trade, media and ICT, investments, and travel. These processes may be political, socio-cultural, economic, ecological, technological, or a combination of them all, as in the case of tourism (Butler & Suntikul, 2010; Dwyer, 2015). Globalisation denotes interaction, interdependence, and in some cases integration among sovereign states, multinational corporations, cultural groups, and individual people. It encompasses international trade, technology, the sharing of

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Trade, Traders and the Ancient City

Cited by 19 publications

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The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

Agglomeration and the Extent of the Market: An Experimental Investigation Into Spatially Coordinated Exchange

Introduction to the Handbook of Globalisation and Tourism

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