Money, culture, and well-being in Rome's economic development, 0-275 CE /

The Roman Empire has long held pride of place in the collective memory of scholars, politicians, and the general public in the western world. In "Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE", Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome's remarka...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoyer, Daniel, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 412.
Temas:
30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Economic development > Rome.
Développement économique > Rome.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Economic development
Economic history
Rome > Economic conditions > 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome > Conditions économiques > 30 av. J.-C.-476.
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy
  • Central aims of the book
  • Who will read this? Target audiences
  • Lingering questions about imperial Rome
  • The many faces of Roman economic history
  • From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence
  • The contribution of modern thinking to ancient problems
  • Book organization
  • Terms and definitions
  • The gift that kept on giving: perpetual endowments and the role of prosociality in Rome's economic development
  • The evolution of prosocial traits from the early days of Rome
  • Prosociality, charity, and social capital: how elite benefaction came to be
  • Perpetual foundations: the gift that kept on giving
  • What lies under the epiphenomena?
  • Investing in the Roman economy : material evidence for economic development
  • Benefactions as wealth generators
  • Investment opportunities in the Roman economy
  • Money in the Roman economy : the numismatic evidence
  • Supplying the demand : coinage, monetization, and market development
  • Aligning public and private interests: public building, private money, and urban development
  • Public needs and private incentives
  • Rome : a world of cities
  • Public building in the cities of Roman Africa: a case study
  • Urbanization and the development of the non-agrarian sectors
  • The surprisingly short reach of the Roman state
  • The public deeds of private citizens
  • Aligning interests
  • Measuring economic performance beyond GDP : economic growth, income inequality, and Roman living standards
  • Real growth in the pre-modern world? : debates, controversies, and confusion in Roman economic history
  • Proxy evidence : extrapolation or hypothesis testing?
  • Rome's 99% : economic capacity and the distribution of wealth
  • Sharing the spoils of success : increasing living standards with public goods
  • Collective action and prosociality in the creation of public goods
  • From prosociality to civil strife : conflict, stagnation, and growing regional divides in the third century ce
  • An overview of the 'crises' of the third century
  • What really happened after 235 CE?
  • Money, investment, and markets
  • Production and exchange
  • The end of Roman prosociality?
  • Conclusion : Rome's place in a global history of development.

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