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The Roman market economy / Peter Temin.
LIBRA HC39 .T46 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Temin, Peter.
- Series:
- Princeton economic history of the Western world
- The princeton economic history of the Western world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce.
- Economic policy.
- Rome--Economic conditions.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Economic conditions.
- Rome--Economic policy.
- Rome--Commerce.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691147680
- 069114768X
- OCLC:
- 784708336
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