Title Roman inequality : affluent slaves, businesswomen, legal fictions / Edward E. Cohen

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) Contents Introduction -- 1 Inequality -- 2 Fiction : reconciling economic reality and juridical principles -- 3 Opportunity : From freedom to slavery -- from slavery to freedom -- 4 Businesswomen: In servitude and in freedom -- 5 Servile imperialism: in power, in servitude Summary "This Introduction considers some significant methodological issues. Because the Roman Empire encompassed innumerable local groupings -- municipalities, kingdoms, provinces, villages -- distributed over a vast area and tenaciously preserving separate societal values, institutions and languages, the sense of the very word "Roman" must be examined, a term that "paradoxically is rarely defined or given meaning" (Revell). Despite the dearth of quantitative evidence in and for classical antiquity, this Introduction seeks to show how methodologies other than statistical -- Behavioral Economics, some aspects of Neo-Classical Economics and (most importantly) New Institutional Economics -- can be utilized, in lieu of mathematical approaches, to elucidate Roman Inequality. Because this book makes significant use of evidence from Roman Law, a number of juridical issues must be confronted: the extent to which Roman law reflects actual life; whether surviving "cases" reflect true disputes or fictitious generalizing hypotheses of academic origin; the influence of anachronism and interpolation in Roman law materials; the interplay between Roman law and indigenous law"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2023) Subject Social stratification -- Rome -- History Enslaved persons -- Rome -- Social conditions Equality -- Economic aspects -- Rome -- History Economic history Equality -- Economic aspects Enslaved persons -- Social conditions Social conditions Social stratification Society & culture: general. Society. SUBJECT Rome -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006770 Rome -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115102 Subject Rome (Empire) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2023003837 ISBN 9780197687352 0197687350 9780197687376 0197687377 9780197687369 0197687369

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