Models, methods, and morality : assessing modern approaches to the Greco-Roman economy / Sarah C. Murray, Seth Bernard, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Sarah C., editor.

Bernard, Seth (Classicist), editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Palgrave studies in ancient economies 2752-3306

Palgrave studies in ancient economies, 2752-3306

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--To 500.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 488 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Models, Methods, and Morality in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies

Part I Methods and Historiography

2. For Those Who Curse the Candle: A Culturally and Historically Relativistic Proposal for Rethinking the Approach to the Ancient Economy (via Archaic Rome)

3. Can Ancient History still Engage the Social Sciences?

4. The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World: Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism

Part II Measurement and Morality

5. The Economics of Immorality: The U.S. Antebellum South, Stalinist Russia and the Roman Empire

6. Before the economy? Growth, institutions, and the Late Bronze Age

7. Standardization as Economic Institution

8. Towards An Ethics of Quantification : Relationality, "Common Sense", and Incommensurability

Part III Paths Forward

9. Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy

10. The Other Side of the Ledger: Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Energy Capture

11. These Old Bones: An Osteobiography of an Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki

12. The 'Health Problem' in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon

13. Why a Human Ancient Economy Should Be Posthuman

Part IV Responses

14. The Perils - and Rewards - of Constantly Re-inventing the Wheel

15. Cursing the Candle: Models, Methods, and Morality

16. Towards an Historically Informed Understanding of Institutions and Economies

17. Epilogue: The Potentials of a New Ancient Economic History.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 1, 2024).

ISBN:

9783031582103

3031582101

Publisher Number:

99996754396

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.