Making of the Ancient Greek Economy (eBook)

Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

Alain Bresson (Autor)

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2015
648 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5245-1 (ISBN)

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Alain Bresson is professor of classics at the University of Chicago.

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A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent economic historiography to provide a detailed picture of the Greek economy between the last century of the Archaic Age and the closing of the Hellenistic period. Focusing on the city-state, which he sees as the most important economic institution in the Greek world, Bresson addresses all of the city-states rather than only Athens.An expanded and updated English edition of an acclaimed work originally published in French, the book offers a groundbreaking new theoretical framework for studying the economy of ancient Greece; presents a masterful survey and analysis of the most important economic institutions, resources, and other factors; and addresses some major historiographical debates. Among the many topics covered are climate, demography, transportation, agricultural production, market institutions, money and credit, taxes, exchange, long-distance trade, and economic growth.The result is an unparalleled demonstration that, unlike just a generation ago, it is possible today to study the ancient Greek economy as an economy and not merely as a secondary aspect of social or political history. This is essential reading for students, historians of antiquity, and economic historians of all periods.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2015
• Übersetzer: Steven Rendall
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Agora • agoranomoi • Agricultural economy • Agricultural Production • Agriculture • Anatolia • Ancient Greece • Anecdote • animal husbandry • archaeology • Archaic Greece • artisanal trades • Asia Minor • Athens • Attica • Birth Control • bithynia • Bosphorus • Canals • Capital • Capital Accumulation • Capitalism • capitalist revolution • center-periphery model • Chios • city-state • City-states • civic land • Climate • Coastal Waters • coinage • Commerce • commercial courts • commercial networks • commercial suits • Commodity • Consideration • consumption • Contemporary Society • Contracts • credit • Currency • Customer • Customs Duties • Decree • deigma • Demography • Demosthenes • De rebus bellicis • Division of Labour • Early Modern Europe • early modern period • Eastern Mediterranean • Ecological Environment • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic History • economic information • Economics • economist • economy • Economy of ancient Greece • Eduard Meyer • emporion • Energy cost • Ephesus • Estates • Europe • exchange value • Export • famine • farming • firewood • Fish production • food production • food security • Food supply • Fraud • free rider system • German Historical School of Political Economy • Grain • grain exports • grain policy • grain sales • Grain trade • GRAPES • Greek Economy • Greek World • Hectare • Hellenistic period • Herodotus • Hinterland • Household • Ideology • Import • income • Industrial Revolution • infanticide • informational asymmetry • Innovation • Institution • insurance • International Trade • Karl Bücher • labor division • labor supply • Land ownership • Lemnos • livestock • livy • maritime loans • maritime trade • Maritime Transportation • Market • Market Economy • market institutions • Markets • Market system • Mass production • Max Weber • Medimnos • Mediterranean trilogy • mercantilism • metals • metic • Miletus • minting • Modernists • Modernity • monetary instruments • MONEY • mortality rates • Moses I. Finley • mutual trade • Nash Equilibrium • New Institutional Economics • nonagricultural production • nondirectional trade • olives • overland transportation • Pastoralism • pasture • Payment • peasant • Peloponnese • perfect market • Polis • Politics • Pontus (region) • population dynamics • ports • Pottery • Precious metal • Precious Metals • predation • Price Control • Prices • Primitivists • Private Property • Product (business) • Production • property • Provision (accounting) • Ptolemaic Kingdom • purchase funds • Quantity • rangeland ecology • raw material • Real Property • Retail • Rhodes • Risk Management • Roman Empire • Roman law • royal land • Salt production • Sea Peoples • self-consumption • shipping • shortage • Silver coin • Slavery • Social Structures • steam engine • Supply and Demand • Supply (economics) • Surpluses • tariff • Tax • Taxation • Tax exemption • tax exemptions • Technological Innovation • Technology • Tetradrachm • Textile Manufacturing • Textiles • Thasos • The Ancient Economy • The Other Hand • Thessaly • Thucydides • Topography • Trade • trade flows • Trade Route • trade strategies • transaction cost • Transaction Costs • transactions • transit fees • Transportation • transport cost • Tribute • trireme • Uncertainty • Watermill • Wealth • Wind
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5245-5 / 1400852455
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5245-1 / 9781400852451