Bad Year Economics
Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
1. Introduction: cultural responses to risk and uncertainty P. Halstead and J. O'Shea
2. The spirit of survival: cultural responses to resource variability in North Alaska L. Minc and K. Smith
3. Saving it for later: storage by prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe P. Rowley-Conwy and M. Zvelebil
4. The role of wild resources in small-scale agricultural systems: tales from the lakes and the plains J. O'Shea
5. The economy has a normal surplus: economic stability and social change among early farming communities of Thessaly, Greece P. Halstead
6. Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger K. Legge
7. The grandfathers and grand theories: the hierarchised ordering of responses to hazard in a Greek rural community H. Forbes
8. Risk and the polis: the evolution of institutionalised responses to food supply problems in the ancient Greek state P. Garnsey and I. Morris
9. Monitoring interannual variability: an example from the period of early state development in southwestern Iran H. Wright, R. Redding and S. Pollock
10. Public intervention in the food supply in pre-industrial Europe W. Jongman and R. Dekker
11. Conclusion: bad year economics J.O'Shea and P. Halstead
References
Index.

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