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020 |a 9780472119608  |q (hardcover : alk. paper) 
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111 2 |a Legal Documents in Ancient Societies (Conference)  |n (2nd :  |d 2009 :  |c Washington, D.C.) 
245 1 0 |a Law and transaction costs in the ancient economy /  |c Dennis Kehoe, David M. Ratzan, and Uri Yiftach, editors. 
260 |a Ann Arbor :  |b University of Michigan Press,  |c 2015. 
300 |a vi, 300 pages ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Law and society in the ancient world 
500 |a "The papers in this collection are the product of a conference titled "Transaction Costs in the Ancient World" organized by David Ratzan and Uri Yiftach. The conference was held on 27-29 July 2009 at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University in Washington, DC, with the financial support of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of New York University. This conference was one in a series of colloquia held since 2008 by the research group Legal Documents in Ancient Societies (LDAS)." -- Acknowledgments. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : transaction costs, ancient history, and the law / David Ratzan, Dennis Kehoe, and Uri Yiftach -- Transaction costs in Athenian law / Gerhard Thur -- Access, fairness, and transaction costs: Nikophon's law on silver coinage (Athens, 375-4 B.C.E.) / Josiah Ober -- Transaction costs and institutional change in Egypt, ca. 1070-525 B.C.E. / Brian Muhs -- Ptolemaic governance and transaction costs / J. G. Manning -- The cost of getting money in early Ptolemaic Egypt : the case of P.Cair.Zen. 1 59021 (258 B.C.E.) / Alain Bresson -- The Grammatikon : some considerations on the feeing policies of legal documents in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods / Uri Yiftach -- The Vivliotheke enkteseon and transaction costs in the credit market of Roman Egypt (30 B.C.E.- ca. 170 C.E.) / F. Lerouxel -- Transaction costs and contract in Roman Egypt : a case study in negotiating the right of repossession / David Ratzan -- Contracts, agency, and transaction costs in the Roman economy / Dennis Kehoe -- From free to fee? Judicial fees and other litigation costs during the high empire and late antiquity / R. Haensch -- The economic perspective : demand and supply in the reduction of transaction costs in the ancient world / Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci. 
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650 0 |a Law and economics  |x History  |y To 1500  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Law, Egyptian  |x Economic aspects  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Law, Greek  |x Economic aspects  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Roman law  |x Economic aspects  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Transaction costs  |x History  |y To 1500  |v Congresses. 
700 1 |a Kehoe, Dennis P.  |9 70900 
700 1 |a Ratzan, David M.  |9 122396 
700 1 |a Yiftach-Firanko, Uri.  |9 39927 
710 2 |a Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)  |9 36267 
710 2 |a New York University.  |b Institute for the Study of the Ancient World  |9 97237 
830 0 |a Law and society in the ancient world  |9 96327 
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