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This book contains a number of chapters on the Roman economy which discuss methods of analysing the performance of the economy of the Mediterranean world under Roman imperial rule in the period c.100 BC to AD 350 through quantification. It focuses on the methods and problems involved in identifying and analyzing the characteristics of economic integration, growth, and decline in this period. In particular, it attempts to suggest how a complex and diverse economic world can be better understood by using quantifiable and proxy data to measure these processes in different parts of the Mediterranean world. The data are drawn from both documentary and archaeological sources, and the book emphasizes the need to draw together different kinds of written and artefactual evidence and to describe the ways in which they complement each other. This approach is pursued in a series of analyses of approaches specific economic sectors: demography, urbanization and settlement patterns, the agrarian economy, patterns of trade and commerce, mining, metal supply, and coinage. The book offers a survey of the opportunities for advancing understanding of the economic and technological development of the Roman empire by using the tools and techniques of economic history and statistical analysis.
Quantifying the Roman economy : integration, growth, decline? / Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson -- Urbanization as a proxy of demographic and economic growth / Elio Lo Cascio -- Response to Elio Lo Cascio / Roger Bagnall -- Archaeology, demography, and Roman economic growth / Willem Jongman -- Peopling the countryside : Roman demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba / Elizabeth Fentress -- Peopling ancient landscapes : potential and problems / David Mattingly -- Quantifying Egyptian agriculture / Alan Bowman -- Response to Alan Bowman / Roger Bagnall -- Approaches to quantifying Roman trade / Andrew Wilson -- Approaches to quantifying Roman trade : response / Michael Fulford -- A comment on Andrew Wilson : 'approaches to quantifying Roman trade' / William Harris -- Roman silver coinage : mints, metallurgy, and production / Matthew Ponting -- Coinage and metal supply / Bruce Hitchner -- Some numismatic approaches to quantifying the Roman economy / Christopher Howgego -- Earnings and costs : living standards and the Roman economy / Dominic Rathbone -- How prosperous were the Romans? Evidence from Diodetian's price edict (AD301) / Robert Allen -- New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy / Walter Scheidel.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009