Overview
- Presents cutting-edge scholarship on methodological approaches to ancient economic history
- Explores the role of institutional economics in evaluating ancient economies
- Explores social factors impacting ancient economic growth, including social inequality and environmental issues
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies (PASTAE)
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Keywords
- Morality
- Greco-Roman World
- Economic Institution
- Roman Economy
- New Institutional Economics
- Standardization
- Economic Measurement
- Methodological Approaches to Ancient Economic History
- Quantification
- Ancient Economic History
- Long run economic development
- Bronze Age
About this book
This edited volume presents a multi-perspectival inquiry into the models that have shaped the study of ancient economies in past decades. The contributions collected here respond to the prevailing tendency to measure ancient Mediterranean economies using methods and techniques designed for assessing the performance of modern economies, considering a range of approaches that might generate a more socially and morally attuned history of the ancient Mediterranean.
The volume explores the challenges of quantification and critically examines the ideological assumptions implicit within the models usually applied to the study of ancient economic performance. The chapters advocate for more inclusive alternatives to traditional ideas of ‘growth’ that take factors such as social inequality, fairness, wellbeing and the relationship between humans and the natural environment into consideration. The book examines through a series of different questions the importance of querying the appropriateness of economic methods from an ethical or socially aware position. Rather than condemning older models, methods, and points of view for their inadequacies, this book focuses on leveraging the benefits from existing methods in economics and suggesting new frameworks to reach toward historical approaches that are both methodologically sophisticated and attuned to the moral, ethical, and political concerns of the twenty-first century. This book will be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary researchers in economics, economic history, ancient history and archaeology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah C. Murray is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in Classics from Stanford University and has published widely in ancient economic history and archaeology.
Seth Bernard is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania and has published extensively on the Ancient Roman economy and economic history of the ancient world.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Models, Methods, and Morality
Book Subtitle: Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy
Editors: Sarah C. Murray, Seth Bernard
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
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 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58209-7Due: 01 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58212-7Due: 01 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58210-3Due: 01 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2752-3292
Series E-ISSN: 2752-3306
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 374
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations