economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the … encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant … Ancient History -- Part I: Prices -- Introduction: Data and Hypothesis Tests -- 2. Wheat Prices and Trade in the Early Roman …

views using the Ricardian model of international trade with many goods. British trade data are used to implement the test …

few industries. This paper presents a test of these views using the Ricardian model of international trade with many goods …. British trade data are used to implement the test and discriminate between the two views of the Industrial Revolution …

This paper demonstrates the presence of Heckscher-Ohlin type trade in bulk commodities in the early Iron Age. I study … the trade going across the Mediterranean Sea, where costs of transport were low. I combine evidence from under …-water archaeology for the existence of this trade with literary evidence about its organization. I argue that international trade was …