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Rome's economic revolution /

This book examines economic change in Republican Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC and fills a major gap by explaining how the economic world of Cicero came into being. The general proposition that the second and early first centuries bc were a time o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kay, Philip, 1955- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Language Notes:In English; occasional phrases in Latin with English translations.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
Subjects:
Rome > Economic conditions > 510-30 B.C.
Rome > Conditions économiques > 510-30 av. J.-C.
Economic history
Rome (Empire)
510-30 B.C
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Rome and its economy at the time of the Second Punic War
  • Indemnities and booty
  • Mining revenues
  • State finance and the lex Sempronia de provincia Asia
  • Cashing in the plunder
  • Credit and financial intermediation
  • Investment farming and agricultural exploitation
  • Trade, capital, and interconnected markets
  • The creation of 'material complexity'
  • After the credit crunch
  • Forecasting the past.