The ancient Greek economy markets, households and city-states

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of marke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Harris, Edward Monroe, editor (editor), Lewis, David Martin, 1985- editor, Woolmer, Mark, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2016.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Markets in classical and Hellenistic Greece / Edward M. Harris and David M. Lewis
  • Part I. Creating the Foundations of Market Exchange: The Role of the State
  • 2. Aristotle and foreign trade / Alain Bresson (translated by Edward M. Harris)
  • 3. Forging links between regions: trade policy in classical Athens / Mark Woolmer
  • 4. Choosing and changing monetary standards in the Greek world during the Archaic and the Classical periods / Selene E. Psoma
  • 5. The legal foundations of economic growth in ancient Greece: the role of property records / Edward M. Harris
  • Part II. Household Production for Markets
  • 6. Industry structure and income opportunities for households in Classical Athens / Peter Acton
  • 7. Whole cloth: exploring the question of self-sufficiency through the evidence for textile manufacture and purchase in Greek houses / Barbara Tsakirgis
  • 8. Agricultural production and domestic activities in rural Hellenistic Greece / Evi Margaritis
  • Part III. Markets and Trade Networks: The Evidence of Transport Amphoras
  • 9. Patterns of amphora stamp distribution: tracking down export tendencies / Tania Panagou
  • 10. The markets, amphora trade and wine industry: the case of Thasos / Chavdar Tzochev
  • 11. Transport amphoras, markets, and changing practices in the economies of Greece, sixth to first centuries BCE / Mark L. Lawall
  • Part IV. Markets, Commodities and Trade Networks
  • 12. Aeglean-Levantine trade, 600-300 BCE: commodities, consumers, and the problem of Autarkeia / Peter van Alfen
  • 13. Towards a general model of long-distance trade: aromatics as a case study / John K. Davies
  • 14. The market for slaves in the fifth- and fourth-century Aegean: Achaemenid Anatolia as a case study / David M. Lewis
  • 15. 'Vita humanior sine sale non quit degere': demand for salt and salt trade patterns in the ancient Greek world / Cristina Carusi
  • 16. Classical Greek trade in comparative perspective / Geoffrey Kron.