Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia - Pirngruber, Reinhard (Universitat Wien, Austria)

This book provides a full reassessment of the economic structures and market performance in Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. The approach is informed by New Institutional Economics and draws heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well as providing the first exhaustive contextualisation of the price data contained in the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries.