Name: The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
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Author: Walter Scheidel
ISBN: 9780521780537

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The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Ian Morris

Walter Scheidel

Richard P. Saller

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Walter Scheidel

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

942

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.0 x 16.0 x 6.0 cm

Weight

1.62 kg.

ISBN

0521780535

ISBN13

9780521780537

Synopsis "The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World "

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.

Walter Scheidel

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Walter Scheidel is a professor of Humanities and Classics and History at Stanford University. His research spans from ancient social and economic history to premodern historical demography, focusing on inequality and state formation. He has written or co-edited 21 books and published more than 260 articles and reviews

Among his most notable works is The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (2017), which analyzes the evolution of inequality throughout history. Another notable work is Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (2019), where he explores the fall of the Roman Empire and its implications for subsequent economic development. These publications fall within the genre of economic and social history.

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