Download Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Privatization: A Survey of the Unresolved Controversies
1
1.
The Dynamics of Privatization, from the
Bronze Age to the Present
Michael Hudson
33
2.
The Archaeological Evidence for International Commerce:
Public and/or Private Enterprise in Mesopotamia
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
73
3.
Private Land Ownership and its Relation to "God"
and the "State" in Sumer and Akkad
Deitz Otto Edzard
109
The Role of Socio-Political Factors in the Emergence of "Public"
and "Private" Domains in Early Mesopotamia
Giorgio Buccellati
129
5.
"Privatization" and Private Property at Nuzi:
The Limits of Evidence
Maynard P. Maidman
153
6.
The Symbiosis of the Public and Private Sectors
in Ugarit, Phoenicia, and Palestine
Michael Heltzer
177
7.
An Age of Privatization in Ancient Mesopotamia
Muhammed Dandamayev
197
Farewell to the Ancient Near East: Evaluating Biblical References
to Ownership of Land in Comparative Perspective
Baruch A. Levine
223
9.
Ager Publicus-.Vublic Property and Private Wealth during the
Roman Republic
Richard E. Mitchell
253
SUMMARY REVIEW
Early Privatization and its Consequences
Michael Hudson
293