olive oil / power networks / temple finance / bank / irrigation networks / social networks / desert mining regions / communication network / oil crops / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Kopais / Nile / Nile river / Nile valley / /
Organization
civil society / Stanford University / /
Person
Van Minnen / Karl Butzer / Karl Wittfogel / /
Position
Economist / simplified model of the political economy / official / king / but also through local traditional institutions / chief financial official / king / king to control the vast hinterland / neoclassical model / the state acts as wealth maximizer / pharaoh / ruler / and collected the agricultural surplus / federal model / economic actor / /