Rome's economic revolution
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198788546
- ISBN10 0198788541
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 384
- Col.lecció Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy #
- Any Edició 2016
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Rústica
Rome's economic revolution
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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.