The Ancient Economy: Evidence and ModelsStanford University Press, 2005 - 285 páginas Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 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. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
The Bronze | 47 |
Comment on Liverani and Bedford | 84 |
Linear and Nonlinear Flow Models for Ancient Economies | 127 |
Comment on Davies | 157 |
Evidence and Models for the Economy of Roman Egypt | 187 |
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