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Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, cartea 412

Autor Daniel Hoyer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mar 2018
The Roman Empire has long held pride of place in the collective memory of scholars, politicians, and the general public in the western world. In Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome's remarkable development.

Hoyer surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004358270
ISBN-10: 9004358277
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity


Cuprins

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Roman Emperors

1 Introduction: Approaching the Imperial Roman Economy
1Central Aims of the Book
2Who Will Read This? Target Audiences
3Lingering Questions about Imperial Rome
4The Many Faces of Roman Economic History
5From Fine-Grained to ‘Big Picture’: Methods and Treatment of the Evidence
6The Contribution of Modern Thinking to Ancient Problems
7Book Organization
8Terms and Definitions

2 The Gift That Kept on Giving: Perpetual Endowments and the Role of Prosociality in Rome’s Economic Development
1The Evolution of Prosocial Traits from the Early Days of Rome
2Prosociality, Charity, and Social Capital: How Elite Benefaction Came to Be
3Perpetual Foundations: The Gift That Kept on Giving
4What Lies under the Epiphenomena?

3 Investing in the Roman Economy: Material Evidence for Economic Development
1Benefactions as Wealth Generators
2Investment Opportunities in the Roman Economy
3Money in the Roman Economy: The Numismatic Evidence
4Supplying the Demand: Coinage, Monetization, and Market Development

4 Aligning Public and Private Interests: Public Building, Private Money, and Urban Development
1Public Needs and Private Incentives
2Rome: A World of Cities
3Public Building in the Cities of Roman Africa: A Case Study
4Urbanization and the Development of the Non-Agrarian Sectors
5The Surprisingly Short Reach of the Roman State
6The Public Deeds of Private Citizens
7Aligning Interests

5 Measuring Economic Performance beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Roman Living Standards
1Real Growth in the Pre-Modern World? Debates, Controversies, and Confusion in Roman Economic History
2Proxy Evidence: Extrapolation or Hypothesis Testing?
3Rome’s 99 %: Economic Capacity and the Distribution of Wealth
4Sharing the Spoils of Success: Increasing Living Standards with Public Goods
5Collective Action and Prosociality in the Creation of Public Goods

6 From Prosociality to Civil Strife: Conflict, Stagnation, and Growing Regional Divides in the Third Century CE
1An Overview of the ‘Crises’ of the Third Century
2What Really Happened after 235CE?
3Money, Investment, and Markets
4Production and Exchange
5The End of Roman Prosociality?

Conclusion: Rome’s Place in a Global History of Development

Appendix 1: List of Inscriptions from the Western Empire Recording Interest being Drawn
Appendix 2: List of Building Inscriptions from the North African Provinces Recording the Sponsor
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"Daniel Hoyer’s, Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE offers an even-handed appraisal of current debates in Roman economic history as well as novel interpretations derived from numismatic and epigraphic sources. (...) this book manages to tell a cohesive and compelling story through an intensive study of a limited body of evidence and a flexible although occasionally frustrating methodological framework.(...) His book ultimately presents a credible picture that deserves attention."Colin P. Elliott in BMCR 2018.11.40

Notă biografică

Daniel Hoyer, Ph.D. (2014), is Project Manager of the Evolution Institute's Seshat: Global History Databank and Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively on a wide range of historical topics, notably concerning the epigraphic and numismatic evidence from imperial Rome.