Roman Law and Economics

Institutions and Organizations Volume I

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Dennis P. Kehoe (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-878720-4 (ISBN)

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The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous potential to illuminate the origins of Roman legal institutions in response to changes in the economic activities that they regulated. These two volumes combine approaches from legal history and economic history with methods borrowed from economics to offer a new interdisciplinary approach.

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated.

Volume I explores these legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Roman Republic to the management of business in the Empire, while Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other.

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci is an Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His research currently focuses on the theory and historical emergence of business organizations, the network structure of codes and constitutions, the economics of shareholder lawsuits, standard form and relational contracts, and carrots versus sticks. Dennis P. Kehoe is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities (Classical Studies) at Tulane University. His research interests centre on Roman social and economic history and Roman law, with his current work focusing on the role of legal institutions in shaping the economy of the Roman Empire.

Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1: Geoffrey Parsons Miller: Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law I
I. Institutions
2: Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen, and Dennis P. Kehoe: What Can the Endogenous Institutions Literature Tell Us About Ancient Rome?
3: Eric A. Posner: The Constitution of the Roman Republic
4: Luuk de Ligt: Law-Making and Economic Change during the Republic and Early Empire
II. Markets and Trade
5: Elio Lo Cascio: Setting the Rules of the Game: The Market and its Working in the Roman Empire
6: Peter Temin: Statistics in Ancient History: Prices and Trade in the Pax Romana
7: Ron Harris: The Organization of India-to-Rome Trade: Loans and Agents in the Muziris Papyrus
III. Organizing Business
8: Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman, and Richard Squire: Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce
9: Andreas Martin Fleckner: Roman Business Associations
10: Barbara Abatino and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci: Agency Problems and Organizational Costs in Slave-Run Businesses
11: Dennis P. Kehoe: Mandate and the Management of Business in the Roman Empire
Endmatter
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Roman Society & Law
Zusatzinfo	6 black-and-white illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 222 mm
Gewicht	592 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-878720-0 / 0198787200
ISBN-13	978-0-19-878720-4 / 9780198787204
Zustand	Neuware