The Ancient Egyptian Economy

The Ancient Egyptian Economy

Author: Brian Muhs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1316558746

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This book is the first economic history of ancient Egypt covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE, and employing a New Institutional Economics approach. It argues that the ancient Egyptian state encouraged an increasingly widespread and sophisticated use of writing through time, primarily in order to better document and more efficiently exact taxes for redistribution. The increased use of writing, however, also resulted in increased documentation and enforcement of private property titles and transfers, gradually lowering their transaction costs relative to redistribution. The book also argues that the increasing use of silver as a unified measure of value, medium of exchange, and store of wealth also lowered transaction costs for high value exchanges. The increasing use of silver in turn allowed the state to exact transfer taxes in silver, providing it with an economic incentive to further document and enforce private property titles and transfers.


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Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

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Total Pages: 79

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Classical Concert Studies

Classical Concert Studies

Author: Martin Tröndle

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1000171647

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Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century. It brings together essays, research articles, and case studies from scholars and music professionals including musicians, music managers, and concert designers. Gathering both historical and contemporary cases, the contributors draw on approaches from sociology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies, and other disciplines to create a rich portrait of the classical concert’s past, present, and future. Based on two earlier volumes published in German under the title Das Konzert (The Concert), and with a selection of new chapters written for the English edition, this companion enables students, researchers, and practitioners in the classical and contemporary music fields to understand this emerging field of research, go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and methodologies, and spark a renaissance for the classical concert.


Johann Strauss and Vienna

Johann Strauss and Vienna

Author: Camille Crittenden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0521027578

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This book examines nineteenth-century Viennese operetta and the historical context in which it was created.


A Companion to Medieval Vienna

A Companion to Medieval Vienna

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 9004395768

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This volume provides a multidisciplinary view on the complexity of an emerging city, offering, for the first time in English, an overview of the current state of research on Vienna in the Middle Ages.