ANCIENT ECONOMIES, MODERN METHODOLOGIES

Descrizione

In questa raccolta si cercano di rinnovare i termini del dibattito sulla storia dell’economia antica attraverso il contributo di studiosi di diversa estrazione.

Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies is a collection of essays which focuses on the art of questioning; it is about ideas and analytical experiment. Ancient economic history has developed enormously since the publication of M.I. Finley’s The Ancient Economy in 1973. Much new material has been brought to bear on the debate on the character of economic life in the Greek and Roman world. But, at the same time, discussions have been going round in circles. This is because not enough attention has been given to the questions ancient historians ask and the concepts with which they approach the economy. In this collection, an attempt is made to renew the terms of the debate by presenting a wide variety of new analytical approaches to ancient economic history ranging from literary theory, cross-cultural comparison, statistical analysis of archaeological data to neo-institutional economics and model-building.

INDEX

Introduction
by Peter F. Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi and Hartmut G. Ziche

WRITING ECONOMIC HISTORY
Neville Morley
Narrative economy

CULTIVATING CURIOSITY: COMPARATIVE HISTORY AND CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACTS
Peter Fibiger Bang
Imperial Bazaar: towards a comparative understanding of markets in the Roman Empire
Jørgen Christian Meyer
Trade in Bronze Age and Iron Age Empires, a comparison

POTSHERDS AND STRUCTURES: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Kevin Greene
Archaeological data and economic interpretation
Mamoru Ikeguchi
A method for interpreting and comparing field survey data

CULTURE, ECONOMY AND INSTITUTIONS: FROM EMBEDDEDNESS TO INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL STRATEGIES
Sitta von Reden
The Ancient Economy and Ptolemaic Egypt
Viviane Baesens
Royal taxation and religious tribute in Hellenistic Palestine
Jean Andreau
Roman law in relation to banking and business: a few cases
Elio Lo Cascio
The role of the state in the Roman economy: making use of the new institutional economics

ANCIENT ECONOMY, TRADE AND MODELS
Willem Jongman
The rise and fall of the Roman economy: population, rents and entitlement
Hartmut G. Ziche
Integrating late Roman cities, countryside and trade