Zosia Archibald & John K. Davies 
Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC [PDF ebook] 

This selection of essays by key names in the field of ancient economies in the ‘Hellenistic’ age (c.330-30BCE), provides essential reading for anyone interested in the evolutionary building blocks of economic history in the eastern Mediterranean and neighbouring regions. Case studies look at management and institutions; human mobility and natural resources; the role of different agents — temples and cities, as well as rulers — in enhancing resources and circulatingwealth; the levers exerted by monopolies and by disparate status groups, including slaves. An introductory essay summarizes the operational elements that drove the engines of these economies.