Introduction : legal systems and economic development / Koenraad Verboven and Paul Erdkamp -- Private property rights and public claims on land in the Roman Empire / Dennis Kehoe -- Hadrian, middlemen, and the exploitation of imperial domains / Alberto Dalla Rosa -- Adapting imperial economic...

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth...

"Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production and consumption levels, it was unparalleled until the early modern period. This volume focuses on how the...