The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social change and conditions. Leading experts address the central issues, from agricultural production to the uses of money and the creation of markets. Taken as a whole the book exemplifies the range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the ancient economy, and illustrates the methodological approaches scholars have deployed to understand it. In doing so it draws on literary, ecological and archaeological evidence.
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Walter Scheidel currently teaches ancient history at the University of Chicago. Formerly Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Stanford University, he has published widely on ancient social and economic history, including Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire: explorations in ancient demography (1996) and Death on the Nile: disease and the demography of Roman Egypt (in press). Sitta von Reden is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol.
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Roman Egypt, Ste Croix, New York, Year Figure, After Finley, Ann Arbor, Max Weber, Oxford University Press, Gross Domestic Product, Jean Andreau, Ptolemaic Egypt, Old Oligarch, Rural Society, Agricultural Products Transported, Asia Minor, Classical Philology, Peter Garnsey, Adam Smith, British Archaeological Reports International Series, Classical Quarterly, Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, Leslie Kurke, Philippe Leveau, Princeton University Press, Roman Italy New!
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- Ancient Greece by Daniel Cohen on 8 pages
- Arts and Crafts of Ancient Greece (Arts & Crafts of the Ancient World) by Ting Morris on 8 pages
- The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies by Richard Duncan-Jones on 5 pages
- Ancient History: Evidence and Models by M. I. Finley on 4 pages
- Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens by Paul Millett on 4 pages
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- Money, Labour and Land: Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece (Routledge Classical Monographs) by Paul Cartledge on 4 pages
- Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History (Approaching the Ancient World) by Neville Morley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis by D. Brendan Nagle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A History of the Archaic Greek World: ca. 1200-479 BCE (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by Jonathan M. Hall on page 253, and Back Matter
- The Ancient Economy by Walter Scheidel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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