Pliny's Roman Economy : : Natural History, Innovation, and Growth / / Richard Saller.
The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder’s economic thought—and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire’s constrained innovation and economic growthThe elder Pliny’s Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 “things worth knowing,” was avowedly intended to be...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 5 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Proxies for Economic Performance in the Roman Empire
- 2 Pliny’s Purpose, Audience, and Method
- 3 Parens Natura and Smithian Growth
- 4 Innovation and Economic Growth in the Natural History
- 5 Pliny’s Economic Observations and Reasoning
- 6 “Utility” and the Afterlife of the Natural History
- Conclusion
- Latin Texts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index