The Roman market economy

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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Auteur principal: Temin, Peter, 1937-
Format: Livre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Princeton ; NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press 2013.
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Accès en ligne:Accès Université Orléans et IFPM
Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-287) and index
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : XII, 299 p.
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Table des matières:
  • Economics and ancient history
  • Prices
  • Introduction : data and hypothesis tests
  • Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire
  • Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon
  • Price behavior in the Roman empire
  • Markets in the Roman empire
  • Introduction : Roman microeconomics
  • The grain trade
  • The labor market
  • Land ownership
  • Financial intermediation
  • The Roman economy
  • Introduction : Roman macroeconomics
  • Growth theory for ancient economies
  • Economic growth in a Malthusian empire
  • Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Economics and ancient history
  • Prices
  • Introduction: data and hypothesis tests
  • Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire
  • Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon
  • Price behavior in the Roman empire
  • Markets in the Roman empire
  • Introduction: Roman microeconomics
  • The grain trade
  • The labor market
  • Land ownership
  • Financial intermediation
  • The Roman economy
  • Introduction: Roman macroeconomics
  • Growth theory for ancient economies
  • Economic growth in a Malthusian empire
  • Appendix to chapter 10
  • Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire
  • References
  • Index