"Often viewed as self-sufficient, Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services, from metal tools to medical expertise. However, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and...

Introduction / John T. Fitzgerald, David B. Hollander, and Thomas R. Blanton IV -- The extramercantile economy : an assessment of the new institutional economics : paradigm in relation to recent studies of ancient Greece and Rome / Thomas R. Blanton IV and David B. Hollander -- Early Greek...