Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472119605
A critical element of economic performance from antiquity to the present
Author : Cristina Rosillo-López
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030541002
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantages and inequalities; at the same time, it is a source of profit, legal and illegal, and of transaction costs. The contributions that make up the present book aim to deepen our understanding of the economy of Ancient Rome by identifying and analysing formal and informal systems of knowledge and institutions that contributed to control, manage, restrict and enhance information. The chapters scrutinize the impact of information asymmetries on specific economic sectors, such as the labour market and the market of real estate, as well as the world of professional associations and trading networks. It further discusses structures and institutions that facilitated and regulated economic information in the public and the private spheres, such as market places, auctions, financial mechanisms and instruments, state treasures and archives. Managing Asymmetric Information in the Roman Economy invites the reader to evaluate economic activities within a larger collective mental, social, and political framework, and aims ultimately to test the applicability of tools and ideas from theoretical frameworks such as the Economics of Information to ancient and comparative historical research.
Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0472130439
An engaging look at how ancient Greeks and Romans crafted laws that fit--and, in turn, changed--their worlds
Author : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,85 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 : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1131 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3110604930
The second volume of the Handbook describes different extractive economies in the world regions that have been outlined in the first volume. A wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools, which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. A central focus are nodes of consumption that are visible in the archaeological and textual records of royal capitals, cities, religious centers, and armies that were stationed, in some cases permanently, in imperial frontier zones. Complementary to the multipolar concentrations of consumption are the fiscal-tributary structures of the empires vis-à-vis other institutions that had the capacity to extract, mobilize, and concentrate resources and wealth. Larger volumes of state-issued coinage in various metals show the new role of coinage in taxation, local economic activities, and social practices, even where textual evidence is absent. Given the overwhelming importance of agriculture, the volume also analyses forms of agrarian development, especially around cities and in imperial frontier zones. Special consideration is given to road- and water-management systems for which there is now sufficient archaeological and documentary evidence to enable cross-disciplinary comparative research.
Author : Colin P. Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 39,34 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 : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 10,18 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 : Marcella Frangipane
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3031087631
This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, including contributions by archaeologists, historians of antiquity, economic historians as well as historians of economic thought, it studies various aspects of ancient economies, such as the material living conditions including production technologies, etc.; economic institutions such as markets and coinage; as well as the economic thinking of the time. In the process, it also explores the comparability of economic thought, economic institutions and economic systems in ancient history. Focusing on the Ancient Near East as well as the Mediterranean, including Greece and Rome, this comparative perspective makes it possible to identify historical permanencies, but also diverse forms of social and political organization and cultural systems. These institutions are then evaluated in terms of their capacity to solve economic problems, such as the efficient use of resources or political stability. The first part of the book introduces readers to the methodological context of the comparative approach, including an evaluation of the related historiographical tradition. Subsequent parts discuss a range of development models, elements of economic thinking in ancient societies, the role of trade and globalization, and the use of monetary and financial instruments, as well as political aspects.
Author : Taco Terpstra
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691172080
How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process of state formation, culminating in the largest state the ancient Mediterranean would ever know, the Roman Empire. Subsequent economic decline coincided with state disintegration. How are the two processes related? In Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean, Taco Terpstra investigates how the organizational structure of trade benefited from state institutions. Although enforcement typically depended on private actors, traders could utilize a public infrastructure, which included not only courts and legal frameworks but also socially cohesive ideologies. Terpstra details how business practices emerged that were based on private order, yet took advantage of public institutions. Focusing on the activity of both private and public economic actors—from Greek city councilors and Ptolemaic officials to long-distance traders and Roman magistrates and financiers—Terpstra illuminates the complex relationship between economic development and state structures in the ancient Mediterranean.
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 26,15 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.
