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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... wages and incomes. Crucially, these proxies do not always line up in ways that permit easy conclusions about long-term developmental patterns: while the shipwreck time-series seems to suggest that the volume of maritime trade in the ...
... wages and incomes. Crucially, these proxies do not always line up in ways that permit easy conclusions about long-term developmental patterns: while the shipwreck time-series seems to suggest that the volume of maritime trade in the ...
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... wages, since the reallocation by women of their labor from household production to production for the market increased the disposable income available to the members of their households.34 The models of Grantham and de Vries point to ...
... wages, since the reallocation by women of their labor from household production to production for the market increased the disposable income available to the members of their households.34 The models of Grantham and de Vries point to ...
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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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