Plinys Roman Economy

Author : Richard Saller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691229562
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pliny's Roman Economy written by Richard Saller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recent works by economic historians of early modern Europe have argued for a link between encyclopedias of the 18th century and the developments culminating in the Industrial Revolution. Diderot and D'Alembert's great Encyclopedie aimed to disseminate useful knowledge for productive growth and was one of the most visible contributions to what economic historian Joel Mokyr has labelled a "culture of growth." While the Ancient Romans didn't have anything like these encyclopedias, they did have its very popular and acknowledged ancestor, the thirty-seven books of Pliny's Natural History. Much has been written about Pliny's view of nature, his scientific thought, his ideology of empire, and so on, but there has been no comparable effort to probe Pliny's economic views and the impact, if any, of his history on Roman economic growth. In Pliny's Roman Economy, eminent Roman historian Richard Saller aims to bring together the economic observations and instances of financial reasoning scattered throughout the Natural History. Taken together, they do not amount to a discipline of "economics," but, Saller argues they do provide insights into Pliny's views about different forms of production and commerce, about labor and agency, about price formation and profitability, about investment and consumption and about technology. Combined with archaeological and other evidence, Pliny's work can also provide us with one of our best textual pictures of the working of the Roman economy"--

Author : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191616494
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome's Imperial Economy written by W. V. Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Rome has a name for wealth and luxury, but was the economy of the Roman Empire as a whole a success, by the standards of pre-modern economies? In this volume W. V. Harris brings together eleven previously published papers on this much-argued subject, with additional comments to bring them up to date. A new study of poverty and destitution provides a fresh perspective on the question of the Roman Empire's economic performance, and a substantial introduction ties the collection together. Harris tackles difficult but essential questions, such as how slavery worked, what role the state played, whether the Romans had a sophisticated monetary system, what it was like to be poor, whether they achieved sustained economic growth. He shows that in spite of notably sophisticated economic institutions and the spectacular wealth of a few, the Roman economy remained incorrigibly pre-modern and left a definite segment of the population high and dry.

Author : Richard Duncan-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892896
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy written by Richard Duncan-Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan-Jones presents a series of studies and debates on interlocking themes which explore central areas of the Roman economy and the ways those areas connect and interact. The studies are grouped into five sections: Time and Distance, Demography and Manpower, Agrarian Patterns, The World of Cities, and Tax-payment and Tax-assessment.

Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520060679
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire written by Peter Garnsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-06-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth, or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? Why did Roman governments freeze the official religion while allowing the diffusion of alien, especially oriental, cults? Are we to see in their attitude to Christianity a policy of toleration—or simply confusion and a failure of nerve? These are some of the many questions posed in this book, which offers the first overall account of the society, economy and culture of the Roman empire. Addressed to non-specialist readers no less than to scholars, it breaks with the traditional historian's preoccupation with narrative and politics. As an integrated study of the life and outlook of the ordinary inhabitants of the Roman world, it deepens our understanding of the underlying factors in this important formative period of world history.

Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285980
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire written by Peter Garnsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the diffusion of alien cults and the emergence of Christianity? These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198728921
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World written by Paul Erdkamp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on how the institutional set-up, or structure, of the Roman Empire positively or negatively affected economic performance.

Author : Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Economy written by Arnold Hugh Martin Jones and published by Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield. This book was released on 1974 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cristina Rosillo-López
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030541002
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Information in the Roman Economy written by Cristina Rosillo-López and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantages and inequalities; at the same time, it is a source of profit, legal and illegal, and of transaction costs. The contributions that make up the present book aim to deepen our understanding of the economy of Ancient Rome by identifying and analysing formal and informal systems of knowledge and institutions that contributed to control, manage, restrict and enhance information. The chapters scrutinize the impact of information asymmetries on specific economic sectors, such as the labour market and the market of real estate, as well as the world of professional associations and trading networks. It further discusses structures and institutions that facilitated and regulated economic information in the public and the private spheres, such as market places, auctions, financial mechanisms and instruments, state treasures and archives. Managing Asymmetric Information in the Roman Economy invites the reader to evaluate economic activities within a larger collective mental, social, and political framework, and aims ultimately to test the applicability of tools and ideas from theoretical frameworks such as the Economics of Information to ancient and comparative historical research.

Author : Kevin Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059153
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of the Roman Economy written by Kevin Greene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691177945
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Market Economy written by Peter Temin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome 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 critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.