Rome's economic revolution
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availab...
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- ISBN13 9780198788546
- ISBN10 0198788541
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 384
- Colección Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy #
- Año de Edición 2016
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
Rome's economic revolution
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availab...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availability of credit to produce significant growth in monetary liquidity. This, in turn, stimulated market developments, such as investment farming, trade, construction, and manufacturing, and radically changed the composition and scale of the Roman economy.
Using a wide range of evidence and scholarly investigation, Kay demonstrates how Rome, in the second and first centuries BC, became a coherent economic entity experiencing real per capita economic growth. Without an understanding of this economic revolution, the contemporaneous political and cultural changes in Roman society cannot be fully comprehended or explained.