Models, Methods, and Morality : Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy

1. Introduction: Models, Methods, and Morality in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies -- Part I Methods and Historiography -- 2. For Those Who Curse the Candle: A Culturally and Historically Relativistic Proposal for Rethinking the Approach to the Ancient Economy (via Archaic Rome) -- 3. Can Ancient History still Engage the Social Sciences? -- 4. The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World: Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism -- Part II Measurement and Morality -- 5. The Economics of Immorality: The U.S. Antebellum South, Stalinist Russia and the Roman Empire -- 6. Before the economy? Growth, institutions, and the Late Bronze Age -- 7. Standardization as Economic Institution -- 8. Towards An Ethics of Quantification : Relationality, “Common Sense”, and Incommensurability -- Part III Paths Forward -- 9. Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy -- 10. The Other Side of the Ledger: Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Energy Capture -- 11. These Old Bones: An Osteobiography of an Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki -- 12. The ‘Health Problem’ in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon -- 13. Why a Human Ancient Economy Should Be Posthuman -- Part IV Responses -- 14. The Perils — and Rewards — of Constantly Re-inventing the Wheel -- 15. Cursing the Candle: Models, Methods, and Morality -- 16. Towards an Historically Informed Understanding of Institutions and Economies -- 17. Epilogue: The Potentials of a New Ancient Economic History.