The Ancient Economy

Walter Scheidel; Sitta von Reden

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2002

The Ancient Economy

Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden

In the series Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474472326

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About this book

Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field. In 1973, Moses Finley unveiled a comprehensive model of the economic underpinnings of classical civilisation. Since then, supporters and critics have turned the study of the ancient economy into what has been called ‘an academic battleground’. In recent years, however, a growing number of scholars have aimed to move the debate beyond partisan controversies. This volume takes stock of these developments. Embracing a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives derived from ecology, economics and cultural studies and drawing on literary, documentary and archaeological evidence, the contributions address crucial issues from agricultural production, the uses of money and the creation of markets to the scale of long-distance trade and economic growth in the Greek and Roman periods. In a general introduction and separate headnotes for each chapter, the editors provide a concise survey of recent debates, seeking to situate the different contributions in the broader context of contemporary scholarship. This is the first collection of its kind. It is designed to acquaint beginners as well as more advanced students with a variety of thematic and methodological approaches to the study of economic processes in the ancient world. All terms in foreign or ancient languages have been translated into English or explained in a comprehensive glossary. An up-to-date bibliographical essay covering pertinent scholarship in English offers guidance for further reading and the preparation of term papers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note to the Reader Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Glossary Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. After Finley
1 The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece Paul Cartledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Twenty Years after Moses I. Finley's The Ancient Economy Jean Andreau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
PART II. Production
3 Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ça change? Paul Halstead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4 Olive Production and the Roman Economy: The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire Robert Bruce Hitchner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
PART III. Money and Markets
5 Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC Leslie Kurke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6 Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence: Exchange and Society in the Greek City Robin Osborne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
7 The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos Gary Reger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8 The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt Dominic Rathbone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
PART IV. Trade and Transfer
9 Agricultural Products Transported in Amphorae: Oil and Wine Clementina Panella and André Tchernia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
10 Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade Keith Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
PART V. The Nature of the Ancient Economy
11 Modernism, Economics and the Ancient Economy Scott Meikle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
12 Framing the Debate over Growth in the Ancient Economy Richard Saller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Intellectual Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Guide to Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

eBook

Published: March 15, 2002
ISBN: 9781474472326