Models, Methods, and Morality

Models, Methods, and Morality

Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy

Murray, Sarah C.; Bernard, Seth

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2024

488

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9783031582097

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction: Models, Methods, and Morality in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies.- Part I Methods and Historiography.- 2. For Those Who Curse the Candle: A Culturally and Historically Relativistic Proposal for Rethinking the Approach to the Ancient Economy (via Archaic Rome).- 3. Can Ancient History still Engage the Social Sciences?.- 4. The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World: Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism.- Part II Measurement and Morality.- 5. The Economics of Immorality: The U.S. Antebellum South, Stalinist Russia and the Roman Empire.- 6. Before the economy? Growth, institutions, and the Late Bronze Age.- 7. Standardization as Economic Institution.- 8. Towards An Ethics of Quantification : Relationality, "Common Sense", and Incommensurability.- Part III Paths Forward.- 9. Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy.- 10. The Other Side of the Ledger: Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Energy Capture.- 11. These Old Bones: An Osteobiography of an Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki.- 12. The 'Health Problem' in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon.- 13. Why a Human Ancient Economy Should Be Posthuman.- Part IV Responses.- 14. The Perils - and Rewards - of Constantly Re-inventing the Wheel.- 15. Cursing the Candle: Models, Methods, and Morality.- 16. Towards an Historically Informed Understanding of Institutions and Economies.- 17. Epilogue: The Potentials of a New Ancient Economic History.
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Morality;Greco-Roman World;Economic Institution;Roman Economy;New Institutional Economics;Standardization;Economic Measurement;Methodological Approaches to Ancient Economic History;Quantification;Ancient Economic History;Long run economic development;Bronze Age