Market performance and market integration in Babylonia in the ‘long sixth century' BC

This chapter, drawing mostly on Jursa 2010, begins by surveying the principal characteristics of the Neo-Babylonian economy in the period between the fall of the Assyrian Empire (612 BC) and the Babylonian revolts against Xerxes in 484 BC. It then goes on to address the implications of the proposed model for the issue of market performance (and, more specifically, market integration in sixth-century BC Babylonia), and for an understanding of the Babylonian economy in later centuries in general.