The Roman market economy [electronic resource] / Peter Temin.
Material type: TextSeries: Princeton economic history of the Western worldPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013Description: xii, 299 p. : illISBN: 9781400845422 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Rome -- Economic conditions | Rome -- Economic policy | Rome -- CommerceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 330.937 LOC classification: HC39 | .T46 2013Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgments -- 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 -- References -- Index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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