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Empires of Inequality : Ancient China and Rome

Scheidel, Walter - 2016

This paper analyzes the dynamics of income and wealth inequality in two of the largest ancient empires, Han China and Rome. Pervasive structural similarities emerge from this comparative survey. In both cases, resource concentration at the top of society was greatly amplified by rent-seeking and...

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Pliny's Roman economy : natural history, innovation, and growth

Saller, Richard P. - 2022

Economy, eminent Roman historian Richard Saller aims to bring together the economic observations and instances of financial … economy." …

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Institutions, Trade and Growth : the Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia

Creanza, Pier Paolo - 2021

Recent scholarship contends that ancient Mediterranean economies grew intensively, contrary to standard Malthusian predictions. An explanation is Smithian growth spurred by reductions in transaction costs and increased trade flows. This paper argues that an ancient Greek institution, proxenia,...

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Roman technological progress in comparative context : the Roman empire, medieval Europe and imperial China

Terpstra, Taco T. - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 75 (2020)

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Essays in Contemporary Economics : A Festschrift in Memory of A. D. Karayiannis

Bitros, George C. - 2015

: Institutions and the Free Market Economy -- Part IV: Insights for Today from Ancient Greece -- Part V: Indices -- Author Index … integration,” “Issues in the Methodology of Economics,” “Institutions and the Free Market Economy,” and “Insights for Today from … in the European Union, the international economy, and democracies in general, most of the essays offer new insights for …

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Problems in the long-term accumulation of commercial and financial capital in Ancient Greece

Leese, Michael - In: Capital in Classical Antiquity, (pp. 19-46). 2022

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The two-way relationship between Freedman and business in the Roman world

Incelli, Egidio - In: Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective : Material …, (pp. 343-360). 2022

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Ancient or modern? : essays in economic efficiency and growth

Prest, Alan R. (contributor); Harris, Ralph (contributor) - 1964 - [2. ed., rev.]

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Reassessing the Moral Economy : Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century

Skambraks, Tanja (ed.); Lutz, Martin (ed.) - 2023

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Did Long-distance Trade Trigger Smithian Growth in the Roman World? : An Investigation on the Endogenous Nature of the Roman Economic Performance

Oddo, Luigi - 2022

Did long-distance trade in the Roman world operate on a sufficiently big scale to increase the overall size of markets, enabling specialization of labor and thus Smithian growth? Although the Malthusian model represents the dominant view to describe the economic performance of the ancient world,...

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