Temin is a professional economist, and his book glows with the fervour of the true believer.
Peter Thonemann, Times Literary Supplement [T]his important book should be a challenge to ancient economic historians of all persuasions to engage seriously with both economic theory and comparative history, as well as with its specific claims about the development and performance of the ... Read moreRoman Empire.
Neville Morley, Sehepunkte In The Roman Market Economy Peter Temin accomplishes the quintessential task of the economic historian: to take shards of pottery, folios of brittle parchment, and patinated tools and fashion from them a credible, comprehensive and vivid picture of a society long gone.
Plamen Ivanov, LSE Review of Books The Roman Market Economy effectively demonstrates the elegance and simplicity of economic demonstration. But Temin's methodological point would have been more persuasive had it shown that an economic methodology can lead to new, or challenge old, understandings of the ancient economy.
Sitta von Reden, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Show Less