Rome's Economic Revolution

NOTE EDITORE

In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availability of credit to produce significant growth in monetary liquidity. This, in turn, stimulated market developments, such as investment farming, trade, construction, and manufacturing, and radically changed the composition and scale of the Roman economy. Using a wide range of evidence and scholarly investigation, Kay demonstrates how Rome, in the second and first centuries BC, became a coherent economic entity experiencing real per capita economic growth. Without an understanding of this economic revolution, the contemporaneous political and cultural changes in Roman society cannot be fully comprehended or explained.

SOMMARIO

1 - Rome and its Economy at the Time of the Second Punic War 2 - Indemnities and Booty 3 - Mining revenues 4 - State Finance and the lex Sempronia de provincia Asia 5 - Cashing in the Plunder 6 - Credit and Financial Intermediation 7 - Investment Farming and Agricultural Exploitation 8 - Trade, Capital, and Interconnected Markets 9 - The Creation of 'Material Complexity' 10 - After the Credit Crunch 11 - Forecasting the Past

AUTORE

Dr Philip Kay is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198788546
• Collana: Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
• Dimensioni: 232 x 22.3 x 157 mm Ø 594 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 3 in-text illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 400