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Interest, price, and profit: an overview of mathematical economics in YBC 4698

Christine Proust
Robert Middeke-Conlin
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Tablet YBC 4698 provides an interesting overview of the mathematical approach to economic problems in the Old Babylonian period. Although well preserved (see the photo posted at http://cdli.ucla.edu/P255010), the text has been poorly published. In MKT 1, Neugebauer confessed that he was not able to publish the text.[2] In MKT 3, he made little progress. He transliterated the text leaving many signs unidentified, and translated only a small portion of it (MKT 3, 42-45). Neugebauer recognized that his difficulties came mainly from the fact that he was not familiar with economic terminology.[3] Thureau-Dangin improved the reading of some words, and provided a transcription and translation of section 16, the rest of the text remaining quite obscure (Thureau-Dangin 1937b, 89-90). In TMB, he only quoted the text (p. 214) and referred to MKT 3 and to his previous paper.[4] Friberg, in different chapters of his 2005 monograph (2005: 23 n. 10, 60-61, 67-68, and 215-218), made substantive improvements to YBC 4698’s reading and translations, as well as interpretation of problems 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. However, he considered the problems as isolated entities. In this article, we try to look at the text as a whole, and to understand how the different problems are interconnected.
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Christine Proust, Robert Middeke-Conlin. Interest, price, and profit: an overview of mathematical economics in YBC 4698. Cuneiform Digital Library Journal, 2014, http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2014/cdlj2014_003.html. ⟨hal-01515972⟩
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