LEADER 04660nam 2200865 a 450 001 9910452844803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-84827-9 010 $a1-4008-4542-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400845422 035 $a(CKB)2550000000709079 035 $a(EBL)1042912 035 $a(OCoLC)820123257 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000787200 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11503939 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787200 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10813666 035 $a(PQKB)11088047 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042912 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000515164 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43347 035 $a(DE-B1597)453854 035 $a(OCoLC)979758429 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400845422 035 $a(PPN)195532511$9sudoc 035 $a(PPN)187960585 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1042912 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10629461 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416077 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000709079 100 $a20120406d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Roman market economy$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Temin 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17794-5 311 $a0-691-14768-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface 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. 330 $aThe quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries. 410 0$aPrinceton economic history of the Western world. 606 $3(DE-601)104346884$3(DE-588)4066399-1$aWirtschaft$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)104346965$3(DE-588)4037621-7$aMarkt$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)104483865$3(DE-588)4032950-1$aKreditwesen$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)105835560$3(DE-588)4112667-1$aBankgeschäft$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)106304852$3(DE-588)4023222-0$aHandel$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)106320009$3(DE-588)4019889-3$aGeld$2gnd 606 $aHISTORY / Ancient / Rome$2bisacsh 607 $aRome$xEconomic conditions 607 $aRome$xEconomic policy 607 $aRome$xCommerce 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aWirtschaft 615 7$aMarkt 615 7$aKreditwesen 615 7$aBankgeschäft 615 7$aHandel 615 7$aGeld 615 7$aHISTORY / Ancient / Rome. 676 $a330.937 700 $aTemin$b Peter$0121039 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452844803321 996 $aRoman market economy$9257009 997 $aUNINA