{"product_id":"money-culture-and-well-being-in-romes-economic-development-0-275-ce-9789004358270","title":"Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Roman Empire has long held pride of place in the collective memory of scholars, politicians, and the general public in the western world. In Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome's remarkable development.   Hoyer surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Daniel Hoyer’s, Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE offers an even-handed appraisal of current debates in Roman economic history as well as novel interpretations derived from numismatic and epigraphic sources. (...) this book manages to tell a cohesive and compelling story through an intensive study of a limited body of evidence and a flexible although occasionally frustrating methodological framework.(...) His book ultimately presents a credible picture that deserves attention.\" Colin P. Elliott in BMCR 2018.11.40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Roman Emperors  1 Introduction: Approaching the Imperial Roman Economy  1 Central Aims of the Book  2 Who Will Read This? Target Audiences  3 Lingering Questions about Imperial Rome  4 The Many Faces of Roman Economic History  5 From Fine-Grained to ‘Big Picture’: Methods and Treatment of the Evidence  6 The Contribution of Modern Thinking to Ancient Problems  7 Book Organization  8 Terms and Definitions  2 The Gift That Kept on Giving: Perpetual Endowments and the Role of Prosociality in Rome’s Economic Development  1 The Evolution of Prosocial Traits from the Early Days of Rome  2 Prosociality, Charity, and Social Capital: How Elite Benefaction Came to Be  3 Perpetual Foundations: The Gift That Kept on Giving  4 What Lies under the Epiphenomena?  3 Investing in the Roman Economy: Material Evidence for Economic Development  1 Benefactions as Wealth Generators  2 Investment Opportunities in the Roman Economy  3 Money in the Roman Economy: The Numismatic Evidence  4 Supplying the Demand: Coinage, Monetization, and Market Development  4 Aligning Public and Private Interests: Public Building, Private Money, and Urban Development  1 Public Needs and Private Incentives  2 Rome: A World of Cities  3 Public Building in the Cities of Roman Africa: A Case Study  4 Urbanization and the Development of the Non-Agrarian Sectors  5 The Surprisingly Short Reach of the Roman State  6 The Public Deeds of Private Citizens  7 Aligning Interests  5 Measuring Economic Performance beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Roman Living Standards  1 Real Growth in the Pre-Modern World? Debates, Controversies, and Confusion in Roman Economic History  2 Proxy Evidence: Extrapolation or Hypothesis Testing?  3 Rome’s 99 %: Economic Capacity and the Distribution of Wealth  4 Sharing the Spoils of Success: Increasing Living Standards with Public Goods  5 Collective Action and Prosociality in the Creation of Public Goods  6 From Prosociality to Civil Strife: Conflict, Stagnation, and Growing Regional Divides in the Third Century CE  1 An Overview of the ‘Crises’ of the Third Century  2 What Really Happened after 235 CE?  3 Money, Investment, and Markets  4 Production and Exchange  5 The End of Roman Prosociality?  Conclusion: Rome’s Place in a Global History of Development  Appendix 1: List of Inscriptions from the Western Empire Recording Interest being Drawn Appendix 2: List of Building Inscriptions from the North African Provinces Recording the Sponsor Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210742522199,"sku":"9789004358270","price":99.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/money-culture-and-well-being-in-romes-economic-development-0-275-ce-9789004358270","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}