Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.