Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East - Paperbackby Michael Hudson (Author) The twelve articles collected in this volume describe how the most basic features of Western economic organization money, markets, land tenure and enterprise were created in the temples and palaces of the ancient Near East. The perspective on these topics originated in the five international colloquia organized by the Institute for the Study of Long term Economic Trends (ISLET) with Harvard University's Peabody Museum from