Capital in classical antiquity / Max Koedijk, Neville Morley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koedijk, Max, editor.

Morley, Neville, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Palgrave studies in ancient economies

Palgrave studies in ancient economies, 2752-3292

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--To 500.

Economic history.

Capital--Greece--History--To 500.

Capital.

Capital--Rome--History--To 500.

Greece--Economic conditions--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Rome--Economic conditions--510-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 383 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

"This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Piketty's work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically. The book derives from a research workshop in Berlin in April 2018, which brought together a group of established and early career scholars to discuss the implications of Piketty's work and related themes for classical antiquity. Key questions reflected in the text include: How should we characterise the development of the economy/economies of the classical Mediterranean, in relation to the role of capital and the prevalence of inequality? How was wealth, both public and private, evaluated and managed? How much of the wealth of their society did the ancient 1% control and is their dominance better understood in terms of the power of capital, or the role of predation and state capture? How far did certain ancient polities above all the Greek city-states succeed in placing limits on the power of the rich and integrating their interests with those of the masses? Did inequality increase between the height of the Roman Principate and late antiquity, as is often believed? This book will be valuable reading for academics and students working in economic history, ancient history, and other related fields."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity / Neville Morley

2. Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece / Michael Leese

3. Inequality in the Peloponnesian War / Manu Dal Borgo

4. Framing Capital: Xenophon's Economic Model and Social System / Sven Gunther

5. Piketty's Dilemma: Taxes in Fourth-Century Athens / Dorothea Rohde

6. Status as a Brake and Accelerant on Wealth Inequality in the Late Roman Republic / Max Koedijk

7. Rent Control Measures in the 40s BCE: Housing Costs, Public Intervention and Inequality in the Roman World / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez

8. Capital in the Roman Empire: The Scope for Pikettian Dynamics in an Ancient Agrarian Economy / John Weisweiler

9. Money, Capital and Inequality in the Age of Augustus / Colin P. Elliott

10. Was r Greater Than g? Evidence from Roman Egypt / Paul V. Kelly

11. Wealth, Inequality and Political Culture in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor, First to Third Centuries CE / Arjan Zuiderhoek

12. Oligarchy Ancient and Modern / David Singh Grewal

13. Reflection: Beyond Capital / Kim Bowes

14. Reflection: Piketty Among the Ancients

-Capital and Beyond / Walter Scheidel

15. Afterword: Capital, from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century / Thomas Piketty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Ebook version: Capital in classical antiquity.

ISBN:

9783030938338

3030938336

OCLC:

1308472084

Publisher Number:

99991415605