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008 041101s2005 cauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a2004025985
020 $a0804748055 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dVVC$dBAKER$dXFF
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050 00 $aHC31$b.A524 2005
245 04 $aThe ancient economy :$bevidence and models /$cedited by J. G. Manning and Ian Morris.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c2005.
300 $axiii, 285 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aSocial science history
520 $a"Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 B.C. and A.D. 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very different kinds of evidence survive from each of these areas, and specialists have, as a result, developed very different methods of analysis for each region. This book marks the first time that historians and archaeologists of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome have come together with sociologists, political scientists, and economists, to ask whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences in the past, or are merely a function of variations in the surviving evidence and the intellectual traditions that have grown up around it. The contributors describe the types of evidence available and demonstrate the need for clearer thought about the relationships between evidence and models in ancient economic history, laying the foundations for a new comparative account of economic structures and growth in the ancient Mediterranean world."--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-279) and index.
505 5 $aIntroduction / Ian Morris and J.G. Manning -- The Near East: the Bronze Age / Mario Liverani -- The economy of the Near East in the First Millennium BC / Peter R. Bedford -- Comment on Liverani and Bedford / Mark Granovetter -- Archaeology, standards of living, and Greek economic history / Ian Morris -- Linear and nonlinear flow models for Ancient economies / John K. Davies -- Comment on Davies / Takeshi Amemiya -- The relationship of evidence to models in the Ptolemaic economy (332-30 BC) / J.G. Manning -- Evidence and models for the economy of Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- "The Advantages of wealth and luxury": the case for economic growth in the Roman Empire / R.Bruce Hitchner -- Framing the debate over growth in the ancient economy / Richard Saller -- Comment on Hitchner and Saller / Avner Greif.
650 0 $aEconomic history$yTo 500.
700 1 $aManning, Joseph Gilbert.
700 1 $aMorris, Ian,$d1960-
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