As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic
sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of
Roman society, of the normative frameworks and the notions of
wealth, value, identity and status that shaped individual and
collective mentalities. This book takes a multisided insight into
real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic
investments, of speculative businesses ventures, of power abuses
and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential
housing needs. The volume discusses thoroughly relevant and new
literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological and archaeological
evidence, and incorporates comparative historical perspectives and
methodologies, including economic theory and current, critical
sociological debates about the functioning of modern real estate
markets and issues linked to its commodification and regulation. In
pursuing this line of enquiry, the contributions that make up the
book investigate the impact of ideas such as profit, risk, security
and trust in transfers, management and use of residential houses,
commercial buildings and productive estates in urban and rural
contexts. The work further evaluates the legal responses to and the
public enforcement strategies concerning such activities, the high
mobility of fortunes and unstable property-rights that resulted
from one-off but also structural, political, financial, economic
and institutional crises that marked the history of the Roman
Republic and Principate. This book aims to demonstrate the
relevance of the study of pre-modern real estate markets today, and
will be of significant interest to readers of economic history as
well as Roman law, Roman archaeology, the history of urbanism and
social history.
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