Editing Seleucid Empire (section)

=== Academic discussion ===
Interpretations on the Seleucid economy since the late 19th century traditionally fell between the "modernist" and "primitivist" camps.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> On one hand, the modernist view—largely associated with Michael Rostovtzeff and Eduard Meyer—argues that the Hellenistic economies operated along price-setting markets with capitalist enterprises exported over long distances in "completely monetarized markets."<ref name=":2" /> On the other hand, the primitivist view—associated with M.I. Finley, Karl Polanyi and Karl Bücher—interprets ancient economies as "autarchic" in nature with little to no interaction among each other. However, recent discussion has since criticized these models for their grounding on "Greco-centric" sources.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last=Aphergis |first=Gerassmimos George |date=October 2008 |title=The Seleucid Economy |journal=The Classical Review |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=520–522 |jstor=20482569 }}</ref>

Recent discussion has since rejected these traditional dichotomies.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8" /> According to Spek and Reger, the current view is that the Seleucid economy—and Hellenistic economies more broadly—were ''partially'' market-oriented, and ''partially'' monetarized.<ref name=":3" /> While the market was subject to forces of supply and demand, a majority of produce was still consumed by their producers and was, hence, "invisible" to the observer.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" />