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This dissertation is principally concerned with economies and economisms of everyday life. Economy in this sense means something more than what we commonly associate with the term—goods and services, markets, money—although it includes these. The dominant economy of capitalism a…

Previous attempts to understand the factors affecting the energetic cost of locomotion have found a direct link between the energetic cost and the mechanical work done during periods when the limb is in contact with the ground. However, when the limb is not in contact with the g…

The Aurelian Wall represents the largest construction project of the Third Century Crisis, an era of political, social, and economic unrest that nearly proved fatal to the cohesion of the Roman Empire. Investigations of the period have often omitted the economic aspects of the C…