Overview
- Explores how economic historians of the Roman world can integrate economic models and archaeological data
- Engages with various theoretical debates in Roman economic history
- Provides case studies from Italy and the highly urbanized eastern half of the empire
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies (PASTAE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies
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Urban Systems
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Back Matter
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About this book
Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the shared cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and the symbolic ways in which these are reproduced remain invisible in the material record. This book explores ways to bring both disciplines closer together by building a theoretical and methodological framework to evaluate and integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic history research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that complexity economics, based on system theory, offers a promising way forward.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Koenraad Verboven is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient social and economic history, including the monograph The Economy of Friends: Economic Aspects of Amicitia and Patronage in the Late Republic and six edited volumes on Roman economic and legal history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity Economics
Book Subtitle: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History
Editors: Koenraad Verboven
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47898-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47897-1Published: 26 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47900-8Published: 27 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47898-8Published: 25 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2752-3292
Series E-ISSN: 2752-3306
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 363
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Urban Economics, Game Theory, Ancient History, Archaeology