| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 487 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford studies on the Roman economy |
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Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
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| Contents |
1: Introduction, Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven, and Arjan Zuiderhoek ; I. Investment and Innovation. 2: Population, Technology, and Economic Growth in the Roman World, Paul Erdkamp ; 3: Innovations and Uses of Wealth in Archaic Rome and Latium (Late Eighth to Early Fourth Century BC), Cristiano Viglietti ; 4: Capital Goods in the Roman Economy, Wim Broekaert and Arjan Zuiderhoek ; 5: Roman Water-Power: Chronological Trends and Geographical Spread, Andrew Wilson 6: The Archaeological Perception of Capital and its Transformations in Urban Occupations, Nicolas Monteix ; II. Capital and Investment in the Rural Economy. 7: Funding Irrigation: Between Individual and Collective Investments, Marguerite Ronin ; 8: Impensae, operae, and the pastio uillatica: The Evaluation of New Venture Investments in the Roman Agricultural Treatises, Mick Stringer ; 9: A Story of Land and Water: Control, Capital, and Investment in Large-Scale Fishing and Fish-Salting Operations, Annalisa Marzano ; 10: Invention, Tinkering, or Transfer? Innovation in Oil and Wine Presses in the Roman Empire, Tamara Lewit ; III. Human Capital, Financial Capital, and Credit Markets. 11: Labouring for God: The Clergy and Human Capital in the Later Roman Empire, Norman Underwood ; 12: Capital Markets and Financial Entrepreneurs in the Roman World, Koenraad Verboven ; 13: Capital and Investment in the Campanian Tablets, Jean Andreau ; 14: Credit and Financial Capital in Roman Egypt, Merav Haklai ; 15: Temples and Traders in Palmyra, Leonardo Gregoratti |
| Summary |
Investment in capital and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, but has this always been so? This volume aims to shed new light on the ancient Roman economy in this book-length contribution focusing on the allocation and uses of capital and credit and the role of innovation in the Roman world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2020) |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Rome
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Economic conditions -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007572
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Erdkamp, Paul, editor.
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Verboven, Koenraad, editor.
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Zuiderhoek, Arjan, 1976- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192578952 |
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0192578952 |
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9780192578969 |
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0192578960 |
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9780191877995 |
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0191877999 |
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