Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies: Archaeology, Comparative History, Models and InstitutionsPeter Fibiger Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi, Harmut G. Ziche Edipuglia srl, 2006 - 278 pages Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies is a collection of essays which focuses on the art of questioning; it is about ideas and analytical experiment. Ancient economic history has developed enormously since the publication of M.I. Finley’s The Ancient Economy in 1973. Much new material has been brought to bear on the debate on the character of economic life in the Greek and Roman world. But, at the same time, discussions have been going round in circles. This is because not enough attention has been given to the questions ancient historians ask and the concepts with which they approach the economy. In this collection, an attempt is made to renew the terms of the debate by presenting a wide variety of new analytical approaches to ancient economic history ranging from literary theory, cross-cultural comparison, statistical analysis of archaeological data to neo-institutional economics and model-building. |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 27 |
Section 3 | 51 |
Section 4 | 89 |
Section 5 | 109 |
Section 6 | 123 |
Section 7 | 137 |
Section 8 | 161 |
Section 9 | 179 |
Section 10 | 201 |
Section 11 | 215 |
Section 12 | 237 |
Section 13 | 255 |
Section 14 | 277 |
Section 15 | 279 |
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