The concept of the market is the subject of controversial discussions in classical Middle Eastern studies and Egyptology, since there was no term, neither in the Mesopotamian area nor in Egypt, that clearly designated the market as a place and a modus operandi. Background of the discussion are, on the one hand, the studies regarding pre-modern societies inspired by K. Polanyi (among others by M. Finley for the class…
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Renger, Johannes (Berlin),
von Reden, Sitta (Bristol) and
Kuchenbuch, Ludolf (Hagen),
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