Bad Year Economics - Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty (Paperback, New Ed)

Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient and modern history, the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting, farming and pastoralism, across ancient states, empires, and modern nation states. The aim, however, is a common one: to analyse in each case the structure of variability - particularly with regard to food supply - and review the range of responses offered by individual human communities. These responses commonly exploit various forms of mobility, economic diversification, storage, and exchange to deploy local or temporary abundance as a defence against shortage. Different levels of response are used at different levels of risk. Their success is fundamental to human survival and their adoption has important ramifications throughout cultural behaviour.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Directions in Archaeology
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	1989
Editors:	Paul Halstead • John O'Shea
Dimensions:	280 x 210 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-61192-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-521-61192-X
Barcode:	9780521611923

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