in Jürgen Backhaus (ed.), Karl Bücher. Theory, History, Anthropology, Non-Market Economies (Marburg:Metropolis Verlag 2000): pp. 113-35 Music and economics each are abstract in their own way, and few people see much of a connection today. There is of course the “economics of music,” but as Prof. Senn observes, music is a profession whose members...
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Music as an Analogy for Economic Order in Classical Antiquity
How Interest Rates Were Set, 2500 BC – 1000 AD
Originally published in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 43 (Spring 2000):132-161 Máš, tokos and fænus as metaphors for interest accruals* * An earlier draft of this paper has benefited from comments by William Hallo, the late W. F. Leemans, Johannes Renger, Piotr Steinkeller, Cornelia Wunsch and Norman Yoffee. For...
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