The Ancient Economy : Evidence and Models / ed. by J.G. Manning, Ian Morris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amemiya, Takeshi, Contributor.

Bagnall, Roger S., Contributor.

Bedford, Peter R., Contributor.

Davies, John K. (John Kenyon), 1937- Contributor.

Granovetter, Mark, Contributor.

Greif, Avner, Contributor.

Hitchner, R. Bruce, Contributor.

Liverani, Mario, Contributor.

Manning, J. G., Contributor.

Manning, J.G., Editor.

Morris, Ian, Contributor.

Morris, Ian, Editor.

Saller, Richard, Contributor.

Series:

Social Science History

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.) : 6 tables, 24 figures

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very different kinds of evidence survive from each of these areas, and specialists have, as a result, developed very different methods of analysis for each region. This book marks the first time that historians and archaeologists of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome have come together with sociologists, political scientists, and economists, to ask whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences in the past, or are merely a function of variations in the surviving evidence and the intellectual traditions that have grown up around it. The contributors describe the types of evidence available and demonstrate the need for clearer thought about the relationships between evidence and models in ancient economic history, laying the foundations for a new comparative account of economic structures and growth in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

1. Introduction

Part I: The Near East

2. The Near East: The Bronze Age

3. The Economy of the Near East in the First Millennium BC

4. Comment on Liverani and Bedford

Part II: The Aegean

Chapter 5. Archaeology, Standards of Living, and Greek Econon1ic History

6. Linear and Nonlinear Flow Models for Ancient Economies

7. Comment on Davies

Part III: Egypt

8. The Relationship of Evidence to Models in the Ptolemaic Economy (332-30 BC)

9. Evidence and Models for the Economy of Roman Egypt

Part IV: The Roman Mediterranean

10. "The Advantages ofWealth and Luxury": The Case for Economic Growth in the Roman Empire

11. Framing the Debate Over Growth in the Ancient Economy

12. Comment on Hitchner and Saller

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2418-8

OCLC:

1322123881