Peter Temin The Roman Market Economy (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Roman Market EconomyCondition: NewEAN: 9780691177946ISBN: 9780691177946Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/05/2017Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Peter TeminLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0691177945Description: The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century.The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Business & FinanceBook Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western WorldTopic: History, Ancient HistoryRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

Price: 47.18 USD

Location: 60502

End Time: 2025-01-19T03:11:27.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD