The Roman Market Economy / / Peter Temin.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 16 line illus. 16 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Economics and Ancient History
- Part I: Prices
- Introduction: Data and Hypothesis Tests
- 2. Wheat Prices and Trade in the Early Roman Empire
- 3. Price Behavior in Hellenistic Babylon
- Appendix to Chapter 3
- 4. Price Behavior in the Roman Empire
- Part II: Markets in the Roman Empire
- Introduction: Roman Microeconomics
- 5. The Grain Trade
- 6. The Labor Market
- 7. Land Ownership
- 8. Financial Intermediation
- Part III: The Roman Economy
- Introduction: Roman Macroeconomics
- 9. Growth Theory for Ancient Economies
- 10. Economic Growth in a Malthusian Empire
- Appendix to Chapter 10
- 11. Per Capita GDP in the Early Roman Empire
- References
- Index
- Backmatter