ISBN:
9783031582103
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 488 p. 24 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
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Keywords:
Economic history.
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Evolutionary economics.
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Institutional economics.
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Economics
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History, Ancient.
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Morality
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Greco-Roman World
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Economic Institution
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Roman Economy
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New Institutional Economics
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Standardization
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Economic Measurement
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Methodological Approaches to Ancient Economic History
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Quantification
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Ancient Economic History
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Long run economic development
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Bronze Age
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
1. Introduction: Models, Methods, and Morality in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies -- Part I Methods and Historiography -- 2. For Those Who Curse the Candle: A Culturally and Historically Relativistic Proposal for Rethinking the Approach to the Ancient Economy (via Archaic Rome) -- 3. Can Ancient History still Engage the Social Sciences? -- 4. The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World: Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism -- Part II Measurement and Morality -- 5. The Economics of Immorality: The U.S. Antebellum South, Stalinist Russia and the Roman Empire -- 6. Before the economy? Growth, institutions, and the Late Bronze Age -- 7. Standardization as Economic Institution -- 8. Towards An Ethics of Quantification : Relationality, “Common Sense”, and Incommensurability -- Part III Paths Forward -- 9. Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy -- 10. The Other Side of the Ledger: Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Energy Capture -- 11. These Old Bones: An Osteobiography of an Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki -- 12. The ‘Health Problem’ in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon -- 13. Why a Human Ancient Economy Should Be Posthuman -- Part IV Responses -- 14. The Perils — and Rewards — of Constantly Re-inventing the Wheel -- 15. Cursing the Candle: Models, Methods, and Morality -- 16. Towards an Historically Informed Understanding of Institutions and Economies -- 17. Epilogue: The Potentials of a New Ancient Economic History.
Abstract:
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. 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.
Note:
This volume originated in a conference of approximately the same name, first imagined over dinner after a lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta in winter of 2019 at the University of Toronto's Department of Classics, home of both the volume's editors ... At first, we resisted the Zoomification of everything, but for various logistical reasons finally succumbed to the reality of a conference held online, November 5-6, 2021. Papers delivered at that event form the core of the volume." - Seite v
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-58210-3
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