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Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field. In 1973, Moses Finley unveiled a comprehensive model of the economic underpinnings of classical civilisation. Since then, supporters and critics have turned the study of the ancient economy into what has been called 'an academic battleground'. In recent years, however, a growing number of scholars have aimed to move the debate beyond partisan controversies. This volume takes stock of these developments. Embracing a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives derived from ecology, economics and cultural studies and drawing on literary, documentary and archaeological evidence, the contributions address crucial issues from agricultural production, the uses of money and the creation of markets to the scale of long-distance trade and economic growth in the Greek and Roman periods. In a general introduction and separate headnotes for each chapter, the editors provide a concise survey of recent debates, seeking to situate the different contributions in the broader context of contemporary scholarship. This is the first collection of its kind. It is designed to acquaint beginners as well as more advanced students with a variety of thematic and methodological approaches to the study of economic processes in the ancient world. All terms in foreign or ancient languages have been translated into English or explained in a comprehensive glossary. An up-to-date bibliographical essay covering pertinent scholarship in English offers guidance for further reading and the preparation of term papers.
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Walter Scheidel currently teaches ancient history at the University of Chicago. Formerly Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Stanford University, he has published widely on ancient social and economic history, including Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire: explorations in ancient demography (1996) and Death on the Nile: disease and the demography of Roman Egypt (in press). Sitta von Reden is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol.
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Moses Finley's ground breaking 1973 book The Ancient Economy sets the scene for this book also titled The Ancient Economy. From what I can gather, academics have been up in arms in two camps ever since Finley's book: one camp the "primitivists" follow Finley in asserting that ancient economies (if they can be called that) like those of Athens or Rome were mostly localized and driven by the exigencies of the day while the opposing camp of Rostovtzeff et al assert that contemporary concepts like "market economy", "supply and demand" etc can be applied to ancient economies. As it turns out, this book is a collection of essays exploring these two arguments and less an exposition of the ancient economy which was why I bought the book. Ouch. To be fair-er I learnt some things like the enormous wealth of some Roman senators and the extortionate bribes that had to be given (including even by our beloved Julius) in order to win any office. There are all sorts of quotations from ancient texts and historical details and statistical data (where available) that reveal more than one can glean from a "normal" history book/novel of Greece or Rome. Notwithstanding I can only recommend this book if you're writing a thesis or are an academic interested in the subject.
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