LEADER 03158nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910786022703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a90-04-24513-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004245136 035 $a(CKB)2670000000328522 035 $a(EBL)1115292 035 $a(OCoLC)827208836 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822627 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11456278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822627 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10756895 035 $a(PQKB)10613238 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1115292 035 $a(OCoLC)825978170$z(OCoLC)828895482 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004245136 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1115292 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10648926 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL429154 035 $a(PPN)174389256 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000328522 100 $a20121206d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrading communities in the Roman world$b[electronic resource] $ea micro-economic and institutional perspective /$fby Taco T. Terpstra 210 $aBoston $cBrill$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 225 0$aColumbia studies in the classical tradition,$x0166-1302 ;$vv. 37 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-23860-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Intra-community exchange and the use of law in Puteoli -- Interaction -- Inter-community exchange and the role of trading stations in Puteoli -- Coalitions of foreign merchants and shipowners in Ostia -- Inter-community trade and the City of Rome -- Roman traders in the province of Asia -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aAncient Roman trade was severely hampered by slow transportation and by the absence of a state that helped traders enforce their contracts. In Trading Communities in the Roman World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective Taco Terpstra offers a new explanation of how traders in the Roman Empire overcame these difficulties. Previous theories have focused heavily on dependent labor, arguing that transactions overseas were conducted through slaves and freedmen. Taco Terpstra shows that this approach is unsatisfactory. Employing economic theory, he convincingly argues that the key to understanding long-distance trade in the Roman Empire is not patron-client or master-slave relationships, but the social bonds between ethnic groups of foreign traders living overseas and the local communities they joined. 410 0$aColumbia Studies in the Classical Tradition$v37. 606 $aMicroeconomics 606 $aSocial archaeology$zRome 607 $aRome$xCommerce$xHistory 607 $aRome (Italy)$xHistory$yTo 476 615 0$aMicroeconomics. 615 0$aSocial archaeology 676 $a381.0937 700 $aTerpstra$b Taco T$0786678 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786022703321 996 $aTrading communities in the Roman world$91764771 997 $aUNINA