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Capital in classical antiquity

This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Pikettys work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically. The book derives from a research workshop in Berlin in April 2018, which brought together a group of established and early career scholars to discuss th...

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Other Authors: Koedijk, Max., Morley, Neville., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Cham, Switzerland : 2022.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Series: Palgrave studies in ancient economies.
Subjects:
Economic history -- To 500.
Capital -- Greece -- History -- To 500.
Capital -- Rome -- History -- To 500.
Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C.
Rome -- Economic conditions -- 510-30 B.C.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity (Max Koedijk and Neville Morley)
  • Chapter 2. Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece (Michael Leese)
  • Chapter 3. Inequality in the Peloponnesian War (Manu Dal Bo Manu Dal Borgo)
  • Chapter 4. Framing Capital: Xenophons Economic Model and Social System (Sven Gunther)
  • Chapter 5. Pikettys Dilemma: Taxation in Fourth Century Athens (Dorothea Rohde)
  • Chapter 6. Status as a Brake and Accelerant on Wealth Inequality in the Late Roman Republic (Max Koedijk)
  • Chapter 7. Rent Controls in the 40s BCE: housing costs, public intervention and inequality in the Roman World (Cristina Rosillo-Lopez)
  • Chapter 8. Capital in the Roman Empire: the scope for Pikettian dynamics in an ancient agrarian economy (Myles Lavan and John Weisweiler)
  • Chapter 9. Money, Capital and Inequality in the Age of Augustus (Colin Elliott ̂g? Evidence from Roman Egypt (Paul Kelly)
  • Chapter 11. Wealth, Inequality and Political Culture in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor, 1st to 3rd Centuries CE (Arjan Zuiderhoek)
  • Chapter 12. Oligarchy Ancient and Modern (David Singh Grewal)
  • Chapter 13. Beyond Capital (Kim Bowes)
  • Chapter 14. Piketty Among the Ancients: Capital and Beyond (Walter Scheidel)
  • Chapter 15. Afterword: Capital from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Thomas Piketty).

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