What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affecte…
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Poverty in the Roman world
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If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in social and political life and how to treat the poor was a to…
Poverty in the Roman world
by Garnsey, Peter, Osborne, Robin, Atkins, E. M., (E. Margaret)
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"If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in social and political life and how to treat the poor was a t…
What is poverty? What is to be done about it? These are difficult questions in any period. This book looks at how Romans thought about the poor and about the appropriate ways to relieve poverty. It considers their political importance and how far the rise of Christianity affecte…
Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both--either imagining the ancients as involved in "primitive" econom…
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson investigate economic realities in the first century. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, their use of Régulation theory takes seriously the centrality of agriculture in the ancient world and finds economic instability to …
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantag…
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantag…
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantag…
