The Roman market economy /

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Main Author: Temin, Peter (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Series: The princeton economic history of the Western world.

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Call Number: HC39 .T46

Table of Contents:
  • •Economics and ancient history •Prices •Introduction: data and hypothesis tests •Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire •Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon •Price behavior in the Roman empire •Markets in the Roman empire •Introduction: Roman microeconomics •The grain trade •The labor market •Land ownership •Financial intermediation •The Roman economy •Introduction: Roman macroeconomics •Growth theory for ancient economies •Economic growth in a Malthusian empire •Appendix to chapter 10 •Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire