Author : Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff
Publisher : Oxford : The Clarendon Press 1926.
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 31,81 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 : Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,76 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 : 318 pages
File Size : 25,84 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 : Gabriele Cifani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 39,91 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 Garnsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,90 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 : Lukas de Blois
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9004401628
Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affair in the regions that belonged to it, and did economic developments take their own course, independently of the Empire? Questions like these, which are of great consequence to any student of Roman history, archaeology, and Roman law, are treated in this volume, which in its successive parts focuses on: 1. The character of the Roman economy. 2. Economic life in particular regions of the Roman Empire. 3. The economy of the Later Roman Empire.
Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,39 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 : Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198787200
Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated. Volume I explores these legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Roman Republic to the management of business in the Empire, while Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other.
Author : A.H.M. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317873041
This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order.
