Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States

Editors

Andrew Monson, New York University
Andrew Monson is Associate Professor of Classics at New York University. While co-editing this volume, he has held the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the University of Heidelberg as well as the Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt (2012) and Agriculture and Taxation in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: Demotic Land Surveys and Accounts (2012).

Walter Scheidel, Stanford University, California
Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University, California. He is the author or editor of fifteen books on the ancient world, including The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy (Cambridge, 2012). His work, which has focused on ancient social and economic history, historical demography, and the history of empire, has been widely recognized for its innovative quantitative and comparative modelling, cross-cultural scope, and transdisciplinary breadth across the social sciences and life sciences.

Contributors

Andrew Monson, Walter Scheidel, Terence N. D'Altroy, Michael E. Smith, Michael Jursa, Juan Carlos Morena García, James Tan, Gilles Bransbourg, Mark E. Lewis, Kent Gang Deng, John Haldon, Hugh Kennedy, Metin M. Coşgel, Philip C. Brown, Emily Mackil, Josiah Ober, David Stasavage, Peter F. Bang, Edgar Kiser, Margaret Levi