Roman law and economics
by Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe Kehoe, Dennis P. Parsons Miller, Geoffrey
Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the i…
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- Full title :Roman law and economics / edited by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Dennis P. Kehoe.
Summary
Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated. Volume I explores these legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Roman Republic to the management of business in the Empire, while Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other.
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- Publication Date:2020.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:2 volums : : il·lustracions ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198787204, 0198787200, 9780198787211, 0198787219
- oclc:on1335671186
- LC Classification:KJA147
- Dewey Decimal:340.54
Table of Contents
Volume I. Institutions and organizations. -- Volume II. Exchange, ownership, and disputes
Conté: [Volum 1] -- 1:Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law I / Geoffrey Parsons Miller -- I. Institutions -- 2:What Can the Endogenous Institutions Literature Tell Us About Ancient Rome? / Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen, and Dennis P. Kehoe -- 3:The Constitution of the Roman Republic / Eric A. Posner -- 4:Law-Making and Economic Change during the Republic and Early Empire / Luuk de Ligt -- II. Markets and Trade -- 5:Setting the Rules of the Game: The Market and its Working in the Roman Empire / Elio Lo Cascio -- 6:Statistics in Ancient History: Prices and Trade in the Pax Romana / Peter Temin -- 7:The Organization of India-to-Rome Trade: Loans and Agents in the Muziris Papyrus / Ron Harris -- III. Organizing Business -- 8:Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce / Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman, and Richard Squire -- 9:Roman Business Associations / Andreas Martin Fleckner -- 10:Agency Problems and Organizational Costs in Slave-Run Businesses / Barbara Abatino and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci -- 11:Mandate and the Management of Business in the Roman …
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