Search Results - subject:"Rome"

Basu, Dipak R.; Miroshnik, Victoria - 2021

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems. The origin of ethical values is analyzed from a historical context and, through investigating the spread of the Aryan civilization from India into the rest of the...

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Democracy and money : lessons for today from Athens in classical times

Mpētros, Geōrgios K.; Economou, Emmanouil Marios L.; … - 2021

"The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another,...

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Eastern wines on western tables : consumption, trade and economy in ancient Italy

Komar, Paulina - 2021

"Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy is an interdisciplinary and multifaceted study concerning wine commerce and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity. Wine was one of the main consumption goods in the Mediterranean during antiquity, and the...

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The origins of the Roman economy : from the Iron Age to the Early Republic in a Mediterranean perspective

Cifani, Gabriele - 2021

"In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic … interaction, social mobility, and trade, connected Rome and central Tyrrhenian Italy to the Mediterranean Basin even in this early … period of Rome's history. Moreover, these trade and cultural links existed in parallel to regional, diversified economies …

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Painting the Mediterranean Phoenician : on Canaanite-Phoenician trade-nets

Regev, Dalit - 2021

"This book focuses on the Canaanite-Phoenician economic systems that predominated in and determined Mediterranean history. Phoenician trade networks were sophisticated and elaborate operations that required a highly developed society and institutions in order to spread and be maintained. By...

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Four economic topics for studies of antiquity : agriculture, trade, population, and the behavior of aggregate economies

Jones, Donald W. - 2021

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Ancient taxation : the mechanics of extraction in comparative perpective

Valk, Jonathan (ed.); Soto Marín, Irene (ed.) - New York University / Institute for the Study of the … - 2021

"The studies collected in Ancient Taxation explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. Together, the contributors explore the challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral...

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Failed political leadership in ancient China : Lü Buwei and the first emperor of Qin

Jacoby, Marcin - In: Failed leadership, (pp. 75-98). 2021

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Origins of arbitrage

Poitras, Geoffrey - In: Financial history review 28 (2021) 1, pp. 96-123

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The demise of the Roman Republic : a faulty constitution?

Jankowski, Richard - In: Constitutional political economy 32 (2021) 2, pp. 218-232

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