
The Ancient Economy
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2002
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-415-94188-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social change and conditions. Leading experts address the central issues, from agricultural production to the uses of money and the creation of markets. Taken as a whole the book exemplifies the range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the ancient economy, and illustrates the methodological approaches scholars have deployed to understand it. In doing so it draws on literary, ecological and archaeological evidence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
566 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-94188-4 (9780415941884)
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The Ancient Economy
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The Ancient Economy
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Persons
Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden
Content
Introduction; PART I: AFTER FINLEY; Chapter 1 The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece; Chapter 2 Twenty Years after Moses I. Finley's The Ancient Economy; PART II: PRODUCTION; Chapter 3 Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ca change?; Chapter 4 Olive Production and the Roman Economy: The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire; PART III MONEY AND MARKETS; Chapter 5 Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC; Chapter 6 Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence: Exchange and Society in the Greek City; Chapter 7 The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos; Chapter 8 The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt; PART IV TRADE AND TRANSFER; Chapter 9 Agricultural Products Transported in Amphorae: Oil and Wine; Chapter 10 Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade; PART V THE NATURE OF THE ANCIENT ECONOMY; Chapter 11 Modernism, Economics and the Ancient Economy; Chapter 12 Framing the Debate over Growth in the Ancient Economy;