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Author: Gabriele Cifani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1108478956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.
Author: Gabriele Cifani
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Published: 2020
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ISBN-13: 9781108781534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0691177945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 0521898226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007-02-07
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780472115822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2007-11-29
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 0521780535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff
Publisher: Oxford : The Clarendon Press 1926.
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 854
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Garnsey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0520285980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0226200027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Peter Temin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 069114768X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
