Models, Methods, and Morality Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy /
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| Summary: | XXII, 488 p. 24 illus., 8 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58210-3 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Models, Methods, and Morality in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies
- Part I Methods and Historiography
- 2. For Those Who Curse the Candle: A Culturally and Historically Relativistic Proposal for Rethinking the Approach to the Ancient Economy (via Archaic Rome)
- 3. Can Ancient History still Engage the Social Sciences?
- 4. The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World: Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism
- Part II Measurement and Morality
- 5. The Economics of Immorality: The U.S. Antebellum South, Stalinist Russia and the Roman Empire
- 6. Before the economy? Growth, institutions, and the Late Bronze Age
- 7. Standardization as Economic Institution
- 8. Towards An Ethics of Quantification : Relationality, “Common Sense”, and Incommensurability
- Part III Paths Forward
- 9. Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy
- 10. The Other Side of the Ledger: Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Energy Capture
- 11. These Old Bones: An Osteobiography of an Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki
- 12. The ‘Health Problem’ in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon
- 13. Why a Human Ancient Economy Should Be Posthuman
- Part IV Responses
- 14. The Perils — and Rewards — of Constantly Re-inventing the Wheel
- 15. Cursing the Candle: Models, Methods, and Morality
- 16. Towards an Historically Informed Understanding of Institutions and Economies
- 17. Epilogue: The Potentials of a New Ancient Economic History.