Temin, Peter.

The Roman market economy [electronic resource] / Peter Temin. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013. - xii, 299 p. : ill. - The Princeton economic history of the Western world . - Princeton economic history of the Western world. .

Includes 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.

9781400845422 (electronic bk.)




Rome--Economic conditions.
Rome--Economic policy.
Rome--Commerce.


Electronic books.

HC39 / .T46 2013

330.937