The Roman market economy - Temin, Peter; ProQuest (Firm) (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013)
Preface and acknowledgments -- Economics and ancient history -- Prices -- Introduction: data and hypothesis tests -- Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire -- Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon -- Price behavior in the Roman empire -- Markets in the Roman empire -- Introduction: Roman microeconomics -- The grain trade -- The labor market -- Land ownership -- Financial intermediation -- The Roman economy -- Introduction: Roman macroeconomics -- Growth theory for ancient economies -- Economic growth in a Malthusian empire -- Appendix to chapter 10 -- Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire -- References -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Rome -- Economic conditions; Rome -- Economic policy; Rome -- Commerce; Electronic books