Roman Artisans and the Urban EconomyCambridge University Press, 19 lug 2016 This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. By employing a sophisticated methodology based upon comparative evidence and contemporary economic theory, the author develops interlocking arguments about the relationship between four key attributes of urban economic life in Roman antiquity: the nature and magnitude of consumer demand; the structure of urban labour markets; the strategies devised by urban artisans in their efforts to navigate their social and economic environments; and the factors that served to limit both the overall performance of the Roman economy, and its potential for intensive growth. While the author's methodology and conclusions will be of particular interest to specialists in economic history, other readers will profit from his discussion of topics such as slavery and manumission, the economic significance of professional associations, and the impact of gender on economic behaviour. |
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... industries that have left strong traces in the archaeological evidence (some of which, strictly speaking, took place in suburban or rural contexts rather than urban). These include the pottery industries responsible for producing the ...
... industries that have left strong traces in the archaeological evidence (some of which, strictly speaking, took place in suburban or rural contexts rather than urban). These include the pottery industries responsible for producing the ...
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... industries, even if the nature of the evidence makes it difficult to grapple with questions concerning strategies on the level of the individual workshop. Second, scholars have also explored what representations like those of Eurysaces ...
... industries, even if the nature of the evidence makes it difficult to grapple with questions concerning strategies on the level of the individual workshop. Second, scholars have also explored what representations like those of Eurysaces ...
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... antiquity should be able to provide some sense of the. 33 The core of the model can be found at Grantham 1999: 215–22. 34 De Vries 2008, esp. 71–2. 39 Some of these industries have received recent and detailed Argument 13.
... antiquity should be able to provide some sense of the. 33 The core of the model can be found at Grantham 1999: 215–22. 34 De Vries 2008, esp. 71–2. 39 Some of these industries have received recent and detailed Argument 13.
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... industries have received recent and detailed treatments of their own. See, in particular, Graham 2006 on bricks, and Mees 2002 on terra sigillata, particularly the lines produced in Arezzo. See also Fülle 1997: 142–3, who argues that ...
... industries have received recent and detailed treatments of their own. See, in particular, Graham 2006 on bricks, and Mees 2002 on terra sigillata, particularly the lines produced in Arezzo. See also Fülle 1997: 142–3, who argues that ...
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... , collegia offered mixed prospects for growth in productivity: although their private-order enforcement functions helped foster increasingly intensive specialization in certain industries, their exclusive natures Structural outline 21.
... , collegia offered mixed prospects for growth in productivity: although their private-order enforcement functions helped foster increasingly intensive specialization in certain industries, their exclusive natures Structural outline 21.
Sommario
Specialization associations and the organization | 66 |
Manumission and the urban labor market | 130 |
The artisan household and the Roman economy | 192 |
Epilogue | 268 |
Index | 299 |
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