Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of ...

Many other respected sets of laws have been highly impractical in quite puzzling ways, including those developed by the authors of the Old Testament. Although inspired by the Mesopotamian tradition, ...

The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem ... What enabled and made this sustained achievement so successful were royal laws to regularly restore economic balance on a system-wide level.