Roman Market Economy

Name: Roman Market Economy
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ISBN: 9780691147680

ISBN-10: 069114768X

ISBN-13: 9780691147680

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter Temin

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he quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution.The Roman Market Economyuses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity.Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT and the author of Lessons from the Great Depression (MIT Press) and other books. Temin and Vines are coauthors of The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It.



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


Appendix to Chapter 3



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