Money, culture, and well-being in Rome's economic development, 0-275 CE

1. Verfasser: Hoyer, Daniel, 1982- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden : Brill, 2018.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: Mnemosyne. Supplementum v. 412
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Maps; List of Roman Emperors; Central Roman Emperors; Gallic Emperors; Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaching the Imperial Roman Economy; 1. Central Aims of the Book; 2. Who Will Read This? Target Audiences; 3. Lingering Questions about Imperial Rome; 4. The Many Faces of Roman Economic History; 5. From Fine-Grained to 'Big Picture': Methods and Treatment of the Evidence; 6. The Contribution of Modern Thinking to Ancient Problems; 7. Book Organization; 8. Terms and Definitions
  • Chapter 2. The Gift That Kept On Giving: Perpetual Endowments and the Role of Prosociality in Rome's Economic Development1. The Evolution of Prosocial Traits from the Early Days of Rome; 2. Prosociality, Charity, and Social Capital: How Elite Benefaction Came to Be; 3. Perpetual Foundations: The Gift That Kept On Giving; 4. What Lies under the Epiphenomena?; Chapter 3. Investing in the Roman Economy: Material Evidence for Economic Development; 1. Benefactions as Wealth Generators; 2. Investment Opportunities in the Roman Economy; 3. Money in the Roman Economy: The Numismatic Evidence
  • 4. Supplying the Demand: Coinage, Monetization, and Market DevelopmentChapter 4. Aligning Public and Private Interests: Public Building, Private Money, and Urban Development; 1. Public Needs and Private Incentives; 2. Rome: A World of Cities; 3. Public Building in the Cities of Roman Africa: A Case Study; 4. Urbanization and the Development of the Non-agrarian Sectors; 5. The Surprisingly Short Reach of the Roman State; 6. The Public Deeds of Private Citizens; 7. Aligning Interests
  • Chapter 5. Measuring Economic Performance beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Roman Living Standards1. Real Growth in the Pre-modern World? Debates, Controversies, and Confusion in Roman Economic History; 2. Proxy Evidence: Extrapolation or Hypothesis Testing?; 3. Rome's 99%: Economic Capacity and the Distribution of Wealth; 4. Sharing the Spoils of Success: Increasing Living Standards with Public Goods; 5. Collective Action and Prosociality in the Creation of Public Goods
  • Chapter 6. From Prosociality to Civil Strife: Conflict, Stagnation, and Growing Regional Divides in the Third Century CE1. An Overview of the 'Crises' of the Third Century; 2. What Really Happened after 235CE?; 3. Money, Investment, and Markets; 4. Production and Exchange; 5. The End of Roman Prosociality?; Conclusion: Rome's Place in a Global History of Development; Appendix 1. List of Inscriptions from the Western Empire Recording Interest being Drawn; Appendix 2. List of Building Inscriptions from the North African Provinces Recording the Sponsor; Bibliography; Index.

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