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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Social aspects – Rome – History. | Rome – History – Republic, 265–30 B.C. | Rome – History – Empire, 30 B.C.–284 A.D. | BISAC: HISTORY / Ancient / General. LCC HC39.H38 2016 |DDC 331.7/94–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov ...
... Social aspects – Rome – History. | Rome – History – Republic, 265–30 B.C. | Rome – History – Empire, 30 B.C.–284 A.D. | BISAC: HISTORY / Ancient / General. LCC HC39.H38 2016 |DDC 331.7/94–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov ...
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... social contexts by shedding light on the kinds of personal and professional relationships that gave structure to their working lives. By comparison, historians have only recently focused in detail on the questions that Artemidorus ...
... social contexts by shedding light on the kinds of personal and professional relationships that gave structure to their working lives. By comparison, historians have only recently focused in detail on the questions that Artemidorus ...
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... social relations intersected with and influenced one another. The basic parameters of this debate continue to be shaped heavily by Sir Moses Finley's substantivist model, which was itself influenced by the work of sociologists such as ...
... social relations intersected with and influenced one another. The basic parameters of this debate continue to be shaped heavily by Sir Moses Finley's substantivist model, which was itself influenced by the work of sociologists such as ...
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... social relations in order to navigate successfully the economic environments in which they worked. This was true above all in the case of coercive social relationships based on slavery. Historians are well aware that Roman slaveholders ...
... social relations in order to navigate successfully the economic environments in which they worked. This was true above all in the case of coercive social relationships based on slavery. Historians are well aware that Roman slaveholders ...
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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