Athenian Economy and Society : : A Banking Perspective /

Athenian Economy and Society : : A Banking Perspective / / Edward Cohen.

In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which banker...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Cohen, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©1992
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Market Economy-Banking Reality
  • Chapter 2. A Methodological Alternative to the Misuse of Statistics
  • Chapter 3. Financial Context and Concepts
  • Chapter 4. Wives, Slaves, and the Athenian Banker
  • Chapter 5. Banking Operations: "Risk-Laden Revenues from 'Other People's Money' "
  • Chapter 6. The Banks' Role in the Economy
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Passages Cited
  • General Index

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