Business managers in ancient Rome
Subtitle: a social and economic study of Institores, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250
By: by Jean-Jacques Aubert.
Series: Columbia studies in the classical tradition,; vol. 21; Columbia studies in the classical tradition ;; v. 21.
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
Subjects: Management -- Rome.; Commercial agents -- Rome.; Farm management -- Rome.; Agency (Roman law); Rome -- Economic conditions.
Description: Business Managers in Ancient Rome deals with the law of indirect agency in the classical period and explores the technical aspects and historical development of a set of praetorian remedies (actiones adiecticiae qualitatis), their role in the economy and their incidence on the society.

By bringing together various kinds of evidence (legal, literary, epigraphical, archaeological, numismatic, comparative, and accessorily, papyrological), this study attempts to sketch the social and economic history of an important chapter of the Roman law of obligations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421] -441) and indexes.