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Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472115822
A bold application of economic theory to help provide an understanding of the role that law played in the development of the Roman economy
Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0691177945
What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521898226
Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
Author : Gabriele Cifani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108478956
Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521780535
In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.
Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520024366
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Author : André Tchernia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019109109X
André Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. This book brings together the author's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular emphasis on the people involved in it. The book is divided into two main parts. The first is a general study of the structure of Roman trade: Landowners and traders, traders' fortunes, the matter of the market, the role of the state, and dispatching what is required. It tackles the recent debates on Roman trade and Roman economy, providing, original and convincing answers. The second part of the book is a selection of 14 of the author's published papers. They range from discussions of general topics such as the ideas of crisis and competition, the approvisioning of Ancient Rome, trade with the East, to more specialized studies, such as the interpretation of the 33 AD crisis. Overall, the book contains a wealth of insights into the workings of ancient trade and expertly combines discussion of the material evidence-especially of amphorae and wrecks-with the prosopographical approach derived from epigraphic, papyrological and historical data.
Author : Alan Bowman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0191570044
This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created the conditions for the integration of agriculture, production, trade, and commerce across the regions of the empire. Using the evidence of both documents and archaeology, the contributors suggest how we can derive a quantified account of economic growth and contraction in the period of the empire's greatest extent and prosperity.
Author : David B. Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1351596411
Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from smallholders to the owners of large estates – bought and sold, lent and borrowed, and cooperated as well as competed in the Roman economy. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on, and exposure to, macroeconomic phenomena such as monetization and changes in the level and nature of demand for goods and labor. After considering the demographic and environmental context of Italian agriculture, the author explores three interrelated questions: what goods and services did farmers purchase; how did farmers acquire the money with which to make those purchases; and what factors drove farmers’ economic decisions? This book provides a portrait of the economic world of the Roman farmer in late Republican and early Imperial Italy.
Author : Philip Kay
Publisher :
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199681546
Kay examines the economic change in Rome between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He focuses on how the increased inflow of bullion and expansion of the availability of credit resulted in real per capita economic growth in the Italian peninsula, radically changing the composition and scale of the Roman economy.