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Capital, Investment, and Innovation in the Roman World (Hardcover)
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Capital, Investment, and Innovation in the Roman World (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
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Investment in capital, both physical and financial, and innovation
in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic
growth, while credit and credit markets now seem to determine the
wealth - as well as the fate - of nations. Yet was it always thus?
The Roman economy was large, complex, and sophisticated, but in
terms of its structural properties did it look anything like the
economies we know and are familiar with today? Through
consideration of the allocation and uses of capital and credit and
the role of innovation in the Roman world, the individual essays
comprising this volume go straight to the heart of the matter,
exploring such questions as how capital in its various forms was
generated, allocated, and employed in the Roman economy; whether
the Romans had markets for capital goods and credit; and whether
investment in capital led to innovation and productivity growth.
Their authors consider multiple aspects of capital use in
agriculture, water management, trade, and urban production, and of
credit provision, finance, and human capital, covering different
periods of Roman history and ranging geographically across Italy
and elsewhere in the Roman world. Utilizing many different types of
written and archaeological evidence, and employing a range of
modern theoretical perspectives and methodologies, the
contributors, an expert international team of historians and
archaeologists, have produced the first book-length contribution to
focus exclusively on (physical and financial) capital in the Roman
world; a volume that is aimed not only at specialists in the field,
but also at economic historians and archaeologists specializing in
other periods and places.
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