{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-ancient-greek-economy-9780691144702","title":"The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent economi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book must surely sweep the field. Whether one is an undergraduate student, an early-career scholar, has been chewing over the ancient economy for a career, or is simply a general reader with a curiosity about how the ancient economy worked, this is now the go-to work. [Bresson] has produced a book that is at the same time something of an encyclopaedia of the ancient Greek economy, full of in-depth discussions about more or less every product and every economic phenomenon, a sourcebook of texts, particularly epigraphic texts, illustrating economic phenomena, and a book with an argument.\"--Professor Robin Osborne, Classics for All \"This authoritative introduction to and survey of the ancient Greek economy translates, updates, expands, and combines the author's original two-volume French edition. Bresson documents the unprecedented and unparalleled economic growth of the Greek world from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods... [A] thoroughly informed masterwork.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanded Contents vii  List of Figures xv  List of Tables xvii  Introduction xxi  I The Economy of Ancient Greece: A Conceptual Framework 1  Structure and Production  II People in Their Environment 31  III Energy, Economy, and Transport Cost 71  IV The Polis and the Economy 96  V Agricultural Production 118  VI The Economy of the Agricultural World 142  VII Nonagricultural Production, Capital, and Innovation 175  VIII The Logic of Growth 199  Market and Trade  IX The Institutions of the Domestic Market 225  X Money and Credit 260  XI City-States, Taxes, and Trade 286  XII The Emporion and the Markets 306  XIII International Trade Networks 339  XIV Strategies of International Trade 381  XV The Greek Cities and the Market 415  Appendix: Weights, Measures, and Currency Units 439  Abbreviations 443  Notes 449  Sources 531  Bibliography 535  Index 603","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403772666199,"sku":"9780691144702","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-ancient-greek-economy-9780691144702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}