Book Description
Reconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.
Author : Colin P. Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108418600
Reconceptualizes economic theory as a tool for understanding the Roman monetary system and its social and cultural contexts.
Author : Constantina Katsari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139496646
The Roman monetary system was highly complex. It involved official Roman coins in both silver and bronze, which some provinces produced while others imported them from mints in Rome and elsewhere, as well as, in the East, a range of civic coinages. This is a comprehensive study of the workings of the system in the Eastern provinces from the Augustan period to the third century AD, when the Roman Empire suffered a monetary and economic crisis. The Eastern provinces exemplify the full complexity of the system, but comparisons are made with evidence from the Western provinces as well as with appropriate case studies from other historical times and places. The book will be essential for all Roman historians and numismatists and of interest to a broader range of historians of economics and finance.
Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 069114768X
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 : 27,99 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 : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,73 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 : Daniel Hoyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004358285
The Roman Empire has long held pride of place in the collective memory of scholars, politicians, and the general public in the western world. In Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome's remarkable development. Hoyer surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state.
Author : Jesús Huerta de Soto
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 1610163885
Author : Philip Kay
Publisher :
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,59 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.
Author : Roman Frydman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691261156
Posing a major challenge to economic orthodoxy, Imperfect Knowledge Economics asserts that exact models of purposeful human behavior are beyond the reach of economic analysis. Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue that the longstanding empirical failures of conventional economic models stem from their futile efforts to make exact predictions about the consequences of rational, self-interested behavior. Such predictions, based on mechanistic models of human behavior, disregard the importance of individual creativity and unforeseeable sociopolitical change. Scientific though these explanations may appear, they usually fail to predict how markets behave. And, the authors contend, recent behavioral models of the market are no less mechanistic than their conventional counterparts: they aim to generate exact predictions of "irrational" human behavior. Frydman and Goldberg offer a long-overdue response to the shortcomings of conventional economic models. Drawing attention to the inherent limits of economists' knowledge, they introduce a new approach to economic analysis: Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE). IKE rejects exact quantitative predictions of individual decisions and market outcomes in favor of mathematical models that generate only qualitative predictions of economic change. Using the foreign exchange market as a testing ground for IKE, this book sheds new light on exchange-rate and risk-premium movements, which have confounded conventional models for decades. Offering a fresh way to think about markets and representing a potential turning point in economics, Imperfect Knowledge Economics will be essential reading for economists, policymakers, and professional investors.
Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,4 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