Money, culture, and well-being in Rome's economic development, 0-275 CE / / by Daniel Hoyer.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne supplements. history and archaeology of classical antiquity ; Volume 412
• VerfasserIn: Hoyer, Daniel, 1982-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; Volume 412.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 pages) :; illustrastions.

Table of Contents

Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy -- Central aims of the book -- Who will read this? target audiences -- Lingering questions about imperial Rome -- The many faces of Roman economic history -- From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence -- The contribution of modern thinking to ancient problems -- Book organization -- Terms and definitions -- The gift that kept on giving: perpetual endowments and the role of prosociality in rome's economic development -- The evolution of prosocial traits from the early days of Rome -- Prosociality, charity, and social capital: how elite benefaction came to be -- Perpetual foundations: the gift that kept on giving -- What lies under the epiphenomena? -- Investing in the Roman economy: material evidence for economic development -- Benefactions as wealth generators -- Investment opportunities in the Roman economy -- Money in the Roman economy: the numismatic evidence -- Supplying the demand: coinage, monetization, and market development -- Aligning public and private interests: public building, private money, and urban development -- Public needs and private incentives -- Rome: a world of cities -- Public building in the cities of roman africa: a case study -- Urbanization and the development of the non-agrarian sectors -- The surprisingly short reach of the roman state -- The public deeds of private citizens -- Aligning interests -- Measuring economic performance beyond gdp: economic growth, income inequality, and roman living standards -- Real growth in the pre-modern world? debates, controversies, and confusion in roman economic history -- Proxy evidence: extrapolation or hypothesis testing? -- Rome's 99%: economic capacity and the distribution of wealth -- Sharing the spoils of success: increasing living standards with public goods -- Collective action and prosociality in the creation of public goods -- From prosociality to civil strife: conflict, stagnation, and growing regional divides in the third century ce -- An overview of the 'crises' of the third century -- What really happened after 235 CE? -- Money, investment, and markets -- Production and exchange -- The end of Roman prosociality? -- Conclusion: Rome's place in a global history of development.