"Investment in capital, both physical and financial, and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, while credit and credit markets now seem to determine the wealth -as well as the fate- of nations. Yet was it always thus? The Roman econo…
"Recientes trabajos de historiadores económicos de la Europa moderna temprana han defendido la existencia de un vínculo entre las enciclopedias del siglo XVIII y los acontecimientos que culminaron en la Revolución Industrial. La gran Encyclopedie de Diderot y D'Alembert pretendí…
"The focus of Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World is on urban hierarchies and interactions in large geographical areas rather than on individual cities. Based on a painstaking examination of archaeological and epigraphic evidence relating to more than 1,000 cities, the vol…
Historia económica de la Roma antigua
by Benítez, Esther, De Martino, Francesco
fromUniversitaria
Marzano explores the exploitation of marine resources in the Roman world and its role within the economy. Bringing together literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and legal sources, she shows that these marine resources were an important feature of the Roman economy and parallele…
L'Italia romana: storie di un'identità incompiuta
"Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Mi…
The Romans and trade
by Tchernia, André, Minchin, Elizabeth, Grieve, James
fromOxford studies on the Roman economy
"This book brings together André Tchernia's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular emphasis on the people involved in it".