1 The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Note to the Reader viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Glossary xiii
7. Maps xviii
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I. After Finley
10. 1 The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece 11
11. 2 Twenty Years after Moses I. Finley's The Ancient Economy 33
12. PART II. Production
13. 3 Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ça change? 53
14. 4 Olive Production and the Roman Economy: The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire 71
15. PART III. Money and Markets
16. 5 Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC 87
17. 6 Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence: Exchange and Society in the Greek City 114
18. 7 The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos 133
19. 8 The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt 155
20. PART IV. Trade and Transfer
21. 9 Agricultural Products Transported in Amphorae: Oil and Wine 173
22. 10 Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade 190
23. PART V. The Nature of the Ancient Economy
24. 11 Modernism, Economics and the Ancient Economy 233
25. 12 Framing the Debate over Growth in the Ancient Economy 251
26. Intellectual Chronology 270
27. Guide to Further Reading 272
28. Index 279