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The Political Economy of Classical Athens: A Naval Perspective: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, cartea 425

Autor Barry O’Halloran
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 noi 2018
Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O’Halloran seeks to contribute to this renewed debate by re-interrogating the ancient evidence using more recent economic interpretative frameworks. The aim is to re-evaluate accepted orthodoxies and present the economic history of this emblematic city-state in a new light. More specifically, it analyses the economic foundations of Athens through the prism of its navy. Its macroeconomic approach utilises an employment-demand model through which enormous naval defence expenditures created an exceptional period of demand-led economic growth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004386143
ISBN-10: 9004386149
Pagini: 381
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity


Cuprins

PrefaceFigures, Tables and Graphs
Introduction
1 Primitive Positions—the Oikos Debate1The Defining Quartet—Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley2The Ancient Economy Post-Finley
2 New Perspectives1Institutions—the Engines of History2Materialist Man and His Motivations3The Only Constant is Change4Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation5The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences
3 Warfare States1Path Dependence2The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis3The Spartan Naval Mirage
4 War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes1The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy2Emerging Patterns of War3Strategy4Early Athenian Expansionism5The Transition to Triremes6Private to Polis Navies
5 The Late Archaic Transition—the Naval Evidence1Athens’ ‘Turn to the Sea’2Casus Belli3The Athenian Naval Revolution4Themistocles’ Naval Expansion
6 Money, Markets and Naval Procurement1Coinage, Silver and Money Supply2Trireme Costs and Lifespan3Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement4Provisioning the Fleet—a Network of Markets
7 Naval Institutions—Trierarchy1The Rules of the Game2Liturgy—Delivering Public Goods3Trierarchy—Delivering the Fleet4Trierarchy in Theory and Practice5Trierarchy—Institutional Evolution6Cleruchy—Further Institutional Adaptation
8 Naval Innovation1The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy2Naval Technological Innovation—the Ram3Greek Innovation in Nautical Design
9 Naval Defence Infrastructure1Shipsheds2The Athenian Circuit Walls3The Piraeus4The Long Walls5Estimating the Costs
10 Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens1Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence2Schools of Democracy3Athenian Trireme Crews4Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves5The Trireme School of Democracy
11 The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy1Economic Growth2Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets3The Athenian Labour Market4The Naval Economy5Size Matters
12 The Wealth of Naval Athens1The Versatile Trireme2Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments3The Business of Empire4Costs of War5Ancient Athenian Keynesians
Conclusions
Appendix: Sources and NumbersBibliographyIndex

Notă biografică

Barry O’Halloran has degrees in Economics and Politics, French and Renaissance Studies and more recently (2017) was awarded a Ph.D. in Classics at Trinity College Dublin. He was a television journalist with the Irish national broadcaster, RTE, and later founded a digital communications company working in real-time financial information services.

Recenzii

"Barry O’Halloran has written an important book on the Athenian naval economy that deserves the attention of ancient historians. (...) this is the first to explore the Athenian navy from a political-economic perspective, making it a welcome addition to the recent flurry of work on ancient Greek economic history. (...) O’Halloran is equally comfortable navigating macroeconomic terminology as he is Thucydides’ text. He shows convincingly that the Athenians considered decisions about the navy to be economic decisions. (...) Overall, O’Halloran’s book is compellingly argued, nicely articulated, and well researched. (...) The original watercolors he commissioned to brighten his pages, especially those in Chapter 9 of triremes, shipsheds and Piraeus, are a unique treat and a beautiful touch. (...) O’Halloran’s book is, and will remain, an indispensable resource and reference for anyone interested in Athenian naval or economic history." - Tim Sorg, in: BMCR 2019.09.48