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Prophets and markets : the political economy of ancient Israel.
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ISBN: 0898381126 9400974205 9400974183 Year: 1983 Publisher: Boston Kluwer-Nijhoff

Taking ancient mythology economically
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ISBN: 9004097066 Year: 1992 Publisher: Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill,

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Slave-wives, single women and bastards in the ancient Greek world : law and economics perspectives
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ISBN: 178570866X 1785708643 9781785708640 9781785708664 1785708635 9781785708633 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow books,

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"Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallake, the hetaira, and the nothos. It is argued that legitimate marriage - that is 'marriage by loan of the bride to the groom' - was not the only form of legal marriage in classical Athens and the ancient Greek world generally. Pallakia, that is, 'marriage by sale of the bride to the groom', also was legally recognized. The pallake-wifeship transaction is a sale into slavery with a restrictive covenant mandating the employment of the sold woman as a wife. In this highly original and challenging new book economist Morris Silver proposes and tests the hypothesis that the likelihood of bride sale rises with increases in the distance between the ancestral residence of the groom and the father's household. The 'bastard' (nothoi) children of pallakai lacked the legal right to inherit from their fathers but were routinely eligible for Athenian citizenship. It is argued that the basic social meaning of hetaira ('companion') is not 'prostitute'/'courtesan' but 'single woman' - that is, a woman legally recognized as being under her own authority (kuria). The defensive adaptation of single women is reflected in Greek myth and social practice by their grouping into 'packs', most famously the Daniads and Amazons"--


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Enterprise and the scope of the firm : the role of vertical integration.
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ISBN: 085520737X Year: 1984 Publisher: Oxford : Robertson,

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Economic structures of antiquity
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ISBN: 0313293805 Year: 1995 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) : Greenwood press,

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Economic structures of the ancient Near East
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ISBN: 0709933703 Year: 1985 Publisher: London : Croom Helm,

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Taking ancient mythology economically
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ISBN: 9004674330 Year: 1992 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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The primary objective of this book is to decipher the 'codes' or polysemous signs of many prominent myths of the Graeco-Roman and Near Eastern worlds and thereby to expose their hidden economic meaning.


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The Purpled World : marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze age
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ISBN: 9780674272569 Year: 2023 Publisher: Washington Center for Hellenic Studies

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Sacred prostitution in the ancient Greek world : from Aphrodite to Baubo to Cassandra and beyond
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ISBN: 9783868353006 3868353003 Year: 2019 Publisher: Münster Ugarit-Verlag

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