Book Description
Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.
Author : Gabriele Cifani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 13,33 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 : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,25 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 : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 14,33 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 : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 45,62 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 : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,32 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 : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0520285980
During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the diffusion of alien cults and the emergence of Christianity? These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.
Author : Robert Burton Ekelund
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226200027
Using basic concepts of economic theory, the authors explain the origin and subsequent spread of Roman Christianity, showing first how the standard concepts of risk, cost and benefit can account for the demand for religion.
Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019959516X
An assessment of the economic success of Imperial Rome, consisting of eleven previously published papers by the historian W. V. Harris, with additional comments to bring them up to date. Harris also includes a new study of poverty and destitution, and a substantial introduction which ties the collection together.
Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,22 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 : Gabriele Cifani
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Rome
ISBN : 9781108748742
"In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic. Bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, he argues that the early Roman economy was more diversified than has been previously acknowledged, going well beyond agriculture and pastoralism. Cifani bases his argument on a systematic review of archaeological evidence for production, trade and consumption. He posits that the existence of a network system, based on cultural interaction, social mobility, and trade, connected Rome and central Tyrrhenian Italy to the Mediterranean Basin even in this early period of Rome's history. Moreover, these trade and cultural links existed in parallel to regional, diversified economies, and institutions. Cifani's book thus offers new insights into the economic basis for the rise of Rome, as well as the social structures of Mediterranean Iron Age societies"--