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The Imperial Roman Economy (Hardcover)
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The Imperial Roman Economy (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R526
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This book is the first coherent quantified assessment of the
economy of the Roman Empire. George Maher argues inventively and
rigorously for a much higher level of growth and prosperity than
has hitherto been imagined, and also explains why, nonetheless, the
Roman Empire did not achieve the transition which began in Georgian
Britain. This book will have an enormous impact on Roman history
and be required reading for all teachers and students in the field.
It will also interest and provoke historians of the medieval and
early modern periods into wondering why their economies failed to
match the Roman level. Part of the problem in assessing the Roman
economy is that we do not have much in the way of numerical data,
but Roman historians, who rarely have much statistical expertise,
have not always recognised the potential of the data we do have. Dr
Maher's reassessment of the economy of the Roman Empire has to use
the same data as everyone else, but he is able to draw strikingly
novel conclusions in two ways: first, by more statistically
sophisticated use of a few crucial datasets and, second, by
correlating and drawing a coherent picture across the whole
economy. On grain yields, firstly, instead of getting bogged down
in details of individual cases, George Maher shows how there is a
remarkably consistent pattern from which outliers can be excluded,
showing yields were much higher than normally assumed. He then
demonstrates that high yields are in fact necessary to explain the
exceptional urbanization of the Empire. Urbanization at this level
in turn, as George Maher shows, has implications for consumption
and commerce. He takes this further to show how high levels of
trade imply high levels of sophistication in economic practices and
mentality. In one of his most methodologically novel chapters,
George Maher develops a new and simpler way of assessing average
life expectancy and argues for a life expectancy almost double the
traditional view. This book, Dr George Maher's doctoral thesis, is
the theoretical underpinning of his book Pugnare: Economic Success
and Failure.
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