The ancient economy
Subtitle: evidence and models
By: edited by J. G. Manning and Ian Morris.
Contributors: Manning, Joseph Gilbert.; Morris, Ian, 1960-
Series: Social science history
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Brand: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Economic history -- To 500
Description: "Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 B.C. and A.D. 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very different kinds of evidence survive from each of these areas, and specialists have, as a result, developed very different methods of analysis for each region. This book marks the first time that historians and archaeologists of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome have come together with sociologists, political scientists, and economists, to ask whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences in the past, or are merely a function of variations in the surviving evidence and the intellectual traditions that have grown up around it. The contributors describe the types of evidence available and demonstrate the need for clearer thought about the relationships between evidence and models in ancient economic history, laying the foundations for a new comparative account of economic structures and growth in the ancient Mediterranean world."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ian Morris and J.G. Manning; title: The Near East: the Bronze Age / Mario Liverani; title: The economy of the Near East in the First Millennium BC / Peter R. Bedford; title: Comment on Liverani and Bedford / Mark Granovetter; title: Archaeology, standards of living, and Greek economic history / Ian Morris; title: Linear and nonlinear flow models for Ancient economies / John K. Davies; title: Comment on Davies / Takeshi Amemiya; title: The relationship of evidence to models in the Ptolemaic economy (332-30 BC) / J.G. Manning; title: Evidence and models for the economy of Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall; title: "The Advantages of wealth and luxury": the case for economic growth in the Roman Empire / R.Bruce Hitchner; title: Framing the debate over growth in the ancient economy / Richard Saller; title: Comment on Hitchner and Saller / Avner Greif.