A History of Market Performance

Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

Prof. Dr. R.J. van der Spek is professor of Ancient Mediterranean and West-Asiatic History at the VU University (Vrije Universiteit), Amsterdam.

Prof. Dr. J.L. van Zanden is faculty professor of global economic history at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Dr. Bas van Leeuwen is senior researcher at Warwick University, UK and postdoc researcher at the VU University Amsterdam and Utrecht University, the Netherlands.