The Journal of Economic History

Table of Contents - 1985 - Volume 45, Issue 01  

Notes and Discussion

Markets in the Ancient Near East: A Challenge to Silver's Argument and Use of Evidence

Anne Mayhewa1, Walter C. Nealea1 and David W. Tandya1

a1 Anne Mayhew and Walter C. Neale are Professors of Economics and David W. Tandy is Assistant Professor of Classics at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996. Neale was a student of Karl Polanyi's (1947–1951), and then a colleague in the Columbia University /Ford Foundation Interdisciplinary Project (1953–1958) that produced Trade and Market in the Early Empires (see footnote 3 for full citation). The authors wish to thank K. Benson, K. Brown, and E Friberg, and the editors of this JOURNAL for their advice.