Money, culture, and well-being in Rome's economic development, 0-275 CE
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| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Mnemosyne supplements. history and archaeology of classical antiquity
Volume 412 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy
- Central aims of the book
- Who will read this? target audiences
- Lingering questions about imperial Rome
- The many faces of Roman economic history
- From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence
- The contribution of modern thinking to ancient problems
- Book organization
- Terms and definitions
- The gift that kept on giving: perpetual endowments and the role of prosociality in rome's economic development
- The evolution of prosocial traits from the early days of Rome
- Prosociality, charity, and social capital: how elite benefaction came to be
- Perpetual foundations: the gift that kept on giving
- What lies under the epiphenomena?
- Investing in the Roman economy: material evidence for economic development
- Benefactions as wealth generators
- Investment opportunities in the Roman economy
- Money in the Roman economy: the numismatic evidence
- Supplying the demand: coinage, monetization, and market development
- Aligning public and private interests: public building, private money, and urban development
- Public needs and private incentives
- Rome: a world of cities
- Public building in the cities of roman africa: a case study
- Urbanization and the development of the non-agrarian sectors
- The surprisingly short reach of the roman state
- The public deeds of private citizens
- Aligning interests
- Measuring economic performance beyond gdp: economic growth, income inequality, and roman living standards
- Real growth in the pre-modern world? debates, controversies, and confusion in roman economic history
- Proxy evidence: extrapolation or hypothesis testing?
- Rome's 99%: economic capacity and the distribution of wealth
- Sharing the spoils of success: increasing living standards with public goods
- Collective action and prosociality in the creation of public goods
- From prosociality to civil strife: conflict, stagnation, and growing regional divides in the third century ce
- An overview of the 'crises' of the third century
- What really happened after 235 CE?
- Money, investment, and markets
- Production and exchange
- The end of Roman prosociality?
- Conclusion: Rome's place in a global history of development