Imperial Rome has a name for wealth and luxury, but was the economy
of the Roman Empire as a whole a success, by the standards of
pre-modern economies? In this volume W. V. Harris brings together
eleven previously published papers on this much-argued subject,
with additional comments to bring them up to date. A new study of
poverty and destitution provides a fresh perspective on the
question of the Roman Empire's economic performance, and a
substantial introduction ties the collection together. Harris
tackles difficult but essential questions, such as how slavery
worked, what role the state played, whether the Romans had a
sophisticated monetary system, what it was like to be poor, whether
they achieved sustained economic growth. He shows that in spite of
notably sophisticated economic institutions and the spectacular
wealth of a few, the Roman economy remained incorrigibly pre-modern
and left a definite segment of the population high and dry.
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