1.Origin of the Aryans -- 2.Ancient History of the Indians, Russians, and Japanese -- 3.Ethics of the Aryans and Modern Sages of India -- 4.Ethics of Kautilya -- 5.Relationship between Ancient Greece and ancient India, and Christianity -- 6.Ethics of Buddhism -- 7.Ethics of Japanese Buddhism,...

This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia. Unlike earlier studies that mainly focused on its political history, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, analysing aspects of...

Part I: Methodology for the Economic History and the History of Economic Thought of Antiquity -- Part II: Development Models -- Part III: Trade, Specialisation and Growth -- Part IV: Debts, Slaves and Finance.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rome and the Papal State: Old Customs and the New Kingdom of Italy -- Chapter 3: Finance and Banking -- Chapter 4: Structural Elements of the Rome Stock Exchange: Regulations, Price Lists and Intermediaries -- Chapter 5: The Rome Stock Exchange and the...

This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...

1. Introduction: Chaînes Opératoires and the Making of Roman Bread -- 2. Baking as Cultural Heritage: Regional Variation in the Roman Production of Bread -- 3. Modes of Production: Bakeries as Factories and Workshops -- 4 Experiencing the Bakery: Training, Status, Labor, and Exploitation -- 5....

1. Asymmetric Information and the Roman Economy: Introduction -- 2. Economics and Information: Asymmetries, Uncertainties and Risks -- Part 1: Information Management -- 3. Managing Economic Public Information in Rome: the Aerarium as Central Archive of the Roman Republic -- 4. Managing...

Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity? -- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives -- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach -- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity (Max Koedijk and Neville Morley) -- Chapter 2. Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece (Michael Leese) -- Chapter 3. Inequality in the Peloponnesian War (Manu Dal Bo Manu Dal Borgo) --...

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to the Critique of Archaeological Economy (Reinhard Jung, Stefanos Gimatzidis) -- Chapter 2 - Writing the Deep History of Human Economy (Randall McGuire) -- Chapter 3 - Wealth, Women's Labor, and Forms of Value: Thinking From the Study of Ancestral Central America...