The Ancient Economy /

The Ancient Economy / / Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden.

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Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field. In 1973, Moses Finley unveiled a comprehensive model of the economic underpinnings of classical civilisation. Since then, supp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Scheidel, Walter,
von Reden, Sitta,
MitwirkendeR:
Andreau, Jean,
Cartledge, Paul,
Halstead, Paul,
Hitchner, Robert Bruce,
Hopkins, Keith,
Kurke, Leslie,
Meikle, Scott,
Osborne, Robin,
Panella, Clementina,
Rathbone, Dominic,
Reger, Gary,
Saller, Richard,
Tchernia, André,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2002
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World : ERAW
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note to the Reader
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • PART I. After Finley
  • 1 The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece
  • 2 Twenty Years after Moses I. Finley's The Ancient Economy
  • PART II. Production
  • 3 Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ça change?
  • 4 Olive Production and the Roman Economy: The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire
  • PART III. Money and Markets
  • 5 Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC
  • 6 Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence: Exchange and Society in the Greek City
  • 7 The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos
  • 8 The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt
  • PART IV. Trade and Transfer
  • 9 Agricultural Products Transported in Amphorae: Oil and Wine
  • 10 Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade
  • PART V. The Nature of the Ancient Economy
  • 11 Modernism, Economics and the Ancient Economy
  • 12 Framing the Debate over Growth in the Ancient Economy
  • Intellectual Chronology
  • Guide to Further Reading
  • Index

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