The new institutional economics and Roman legal policy -- The creation of rights in the countryside -- Roman legal policy and private farm Tenancy -- Legal order in the rural economy -- Late antique tax policy and incentives for investment

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying...