Roman inequality affluent slaves, businesswomen, legal fictions
Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 InequalityChapter 2 Fiction: Reconciling Economic Reality and Juridicial PrinciplesChapter 3 Opportunity: From Freedom to Slavery-From Slavery to FreedomChapter 4 Businesswomen: In Servitude and in FreedomChapter 5 Servile Imperialism: In Power, In ServitudeWork...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Social stratification
> History
> Slaves
> Social conditions
> Equality
> Economic aspects
> Ancient history: to c 500 CE
> Antike
> BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
> Economic history
> General & world history
> Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
> HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
> HISTORY / World
> LAW / General
> Rechtsordnungen: Römisches Recht
> Roman law
> Wirtschaftsgeschichte
> Rome
> Economic conditions
> Altes Rom
> Ancient Rome
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| Zusammenfassung: | Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 InequalityChapter 2 Fiction: Reconciling Economic Reality and Juridicial PrinciplesChapter 3 Opportunity: From Freedom to Slavery-From Slavery to FreedomChapter 4 Businesswomen: In Servitude and in FreedomChapter 5 Servile Imperialism: In Power, In ServitudeWorks CitedGeneral IndexIndex of Passages Cited "This Introduction considers some significant methodological issues. Because the Roman Empire encompassed innumerable local groupings --- municipalities, kingdoms, provinces, villages --- distributed over a vast area and tenaciously preserving separate societal values, institutions and languages, the sense of the very word "Roman" must be examined, a term that "paradoxically is rarely defined or given meaning" (Revell). Despite the dearth of quantitative evidence in and for classical antiquity, this Introduction seeks to show how methodologies other than statistical --- Behavioral Economics, some aspects of Neo-Classical Economics and (most importantly) New Institutional Economics --- can be utilized, in lieu of mathematical approaches, to elucidate Roman Inequality. Because this book makes significant use of evidence from Roman Law, a number of juridical issues must be confronted: the extent to which Roman law reflects actual life; whether surviving "cases" reflect true disputes or fictitious generalizing hypotheses of academic origin; the influence of anachronism and interpolation in Roman law materials; the interplay between Roman law and indigenous law"-- In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. Roman Inequality reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 265 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780197687345 978-0-19-768734-5 |