Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy -- Central aims of the book -- Who will read this? Target audiences -- Lingering questions about imperial Rome -- The many faces of Roman economic history -- From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence -- The...

Prologue -- Listening to the Silenced -- Part I: Introduction to Olympian Political Economy -- Property -- In Praise of the Homo Faber -- Interlude -- Olympianism and Democracy -- Unity in Democratic Action -- Part II: Olympian Culture System -- Ecumenism, Conviviality, and the Modality of...

History & Theory. Introduction. History, Theory, and Institutions: Approaching the Ancient Economy -- New Directions and Broader Contexts in the Study of Premodern Economies -- Ancient Economies: Taking Stock from Phoenician Traders to the Rise of the Roman Empire -- Bronze, Iron, and Silver:...

Perikles is usually seen as a great statesman and clever leader of the Athenians. In the mid fifth century BC, he seems however to have been in serious political trouble and may well have been in danger of losing the struggle for power and of being ostracised. The fact that his incentives...

Introduction -- Mesopotamian roots of the modern financial system -- Mesopotamian financial innovations -- Financing ancient Egypt's organizational economy -- Finance and social capital in Classical Greece and Rome -- Justice to altruism: early Judeo-Christian finance -- Islamic finances and the...

The Argument -- Part I -- Rich Rome, Poor State -- The Use and Abuse of Tax Farming -- Profiteering in the Provinces -- Part II -- The Power of Taxpayers in the First Punic War -- The Plight of Taxpayers in the Second Punic War -- The Death and Taxes of the Gracchi -- Conclusions

This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale in those chief centres of the late antique and medieval East, whether in Arabia, Egypt,...

Introduction : investigating an urban economy / Miko Flohr and Andrew Wilson -- The agricultural economy of Pompeii : surplus and dependence / Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone -- Quantifying Pompeii : population, inequality, and the utban economy / Miko Flohr -- Consumer behaviour in Pompeii :...

The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Ethics and economics -- Introduction -- Eudaimonia : the ancients and the good life -- The impact of the ancients -- Conceptions of rationality: thin, thick, and ancient -- Ethics and public policy -- The problem of pathological consumption -- Economics, ethics and...

1: The Dark Light of Early Greek Texts on Trade -- 2: Direct Evidence for Long-Distance Exchange from Early Greece -- 3: Assessing Quantitative Change in the Archaeological Record -- 4: Bronze Deposition (and Circulation?), Trade in Commodities, and Evidence from around the Mediterranean -- 5:...

Work, labour, professions : what's in a name? / Koenraad Verboven and Christian Laes -- Sorting out labour in the Roman provinces : some reflections on labour and institutions in Asia Minor / Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Contracts, coercion, and the boundaries of the Roman artisanal firm / Cameron...

Over the past decades, archaeological field surveys and excavations have greatly enriched our knowledge of the Roman countryside. Drawing on such new data, the volume 'The Economic Integration of Roman Italy', edited by Tymon de Haas and Gijs Tol, presents a series of papers that explore the...

Problems and sources -- The parameters of Roman agriculture -- Buyers and borrowers : the rural demand for goods, services, and money -- Vendors and lenders : the rural supply of goods and services -- Farmers' markets, farmers' networks -- Farmers in Roman economic history

Silver, Money and Credit gathers a collection of contributions by leading specialists on the role of silver in Ancient Mesopotamia. The volume is a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek, professor emeritus at the VU University Amsterdam. The thematic core area is the documentation concerning...

Introduction to the Aztec economic world -- The structure of Mesoamerican economy -- The Mesoamerican marketplace -- Merchants, profit and the Precolumbian world -- Often invisible: domestic entrepreneurs in Mesoamerican commerce -- The professional retail merchants -- Merchant communities and...

Introduction -- The Early Dynastic period (c. 3000-2686 BCE) -- The Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period (c. 2686-2025 BCE) -- The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 2025-1550 BCE) -- The New Kingdom (c. 1550-1069 BCE) -- The Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069-664 BCE) -- The...