Daniel Hoyer, Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Leyde, 2018.
Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Mnemosyne, Supplements
xiii, 215 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-35828-7
89 €
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 remarkable development.
Hoyer surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Roman Emperors
1. Introduction: Approaching the Imperial Roman Economy
1 Central Aims of the Book
2 Who Will Read This? Target Audiences
3 Lingering Questions about Imperial Rome
4 The Many Faces of Roman Economic History
5 From Fine-Grained to ‘Big Picture': Methods and Treatment of the Evidence
6 The Contribution of Modern Thinking to Ancient Problems
7 Book Organization
8 Terms and Definitions
2. The Gift That Kept on Giving: Perpetual Endowments and the Role of Prosociality in Rome's Economic Development
1 The Evolution of Prosocial Traits from the Early Days of Rome
2 Prosociality, Charity, and Social Capital: How Elite Benefaction Came to Be
3 Perpetual Foundations: The Gift That Kept on Giving
4 What Lies under the Epiphenomena?
3. Investing in the Roman Economy: Material Evidence for Economic Development
1 Benefactions as Wealth Generators
2 Investment Opportunities in the Roman Economy
3 Money in the Roman Economy: The Numismatic Evidence
4 Supplying the Demand: Coinage, Monetization, and Market Development
4. Aligning Public and Private Interests: Public Building, Private Money, and Urban Development
1 Public Needs and Private Incentives
2 Rome: A World of Cities
3 Public Building in the Cities of Roman Africa: A Case Study
4 Urbanization and the Development of the Non-Agrarian Sectors
5 The Surprisingly Short Reach of the Roman State
6 The Public Deeds of Private Citizens
7 Aligning Interests
5. Measuring Economic Performance beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Roman Living Standards
1 Real Growth in the Pre-Modern World? Debates, Controversies, and Confusion in Roman Economic History
2 Proxy Evidence: Extrapolation or Hypothesis Testing?
3 Rome's 99 %: Economic Capacity and the Distribution of Wealth
4 Sharing the Spoils of Success: Increasing Living Standards with Public Goods
5 Collective Action and Prosociality in the Creation of Public Goods
6. From Prosociality to Civil Strife: Conflict, Stagnation, and Growing Regional Divides in the Third Century CE
1 An Overview of the ‘Crises' of the Third Century
2 What Really Happened after 235 CE?
3 Money, Investment, and Markets
4 Production and Exchange
5 The End of Roman Prosociality?
Conclusion: Rome's Place in a Global History of Development
Appendix 1: List of Inscriptions from the Western Empire Recording Interest being Drawn
Appendix 2: List of Building Inscriptions from the North African Provinces Recording the Sponsor
Bibliography
Index
Source : Brill
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