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Honor and Profit: Athenian Trade Policy and the Economy and Society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E.
Darel Tai Engen
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Description for Honor and Profit: Athenian Trade Policy and the Economy and Society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E.
Hardcover. Combines theory with empirical historical evidence to illustrate the complexity and dynamism of the ancient Greek economy. This volume collects and analyzes economic evidence including government decrees for various known occasions on which Athens granted honors and privileges for services relating to trade. Num Pages: 410 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 699.
This is a new assessment of the ancient Athenian economy relying on fresh documentary evidence. ""Honor and Profit"" offers a welcome corrective to the outmoded Finleyite view of the ancient economy. This important volume collects and analyzes economic evidence including government decrees for all known occasions on which Athens granted honors and privileges for services relating to trade. The analysis proceeds within the intellectual framework of substantive economic theory, in which formal market behavior and institutions are considered to be but a subset of a larger group of economic behaviors and institutions devoted to the production, distribution, and exchange of ... Read more
This is a new assessment of the ancient Athenian economy relying on fresh documentary evidence. ""Honor and Profit"" offers a welcome corrective to the outmoded Finleyite view of the ancient economy. This important volume collects and analyzes economic evidence including government decrees for all known occasions on which Athens granted honors and privileges for services relating to trade. The analysis proceeds within the intellectual framework of substantive economic theory, in which formal market behavior and institutions are considered to be but a subset of a larger group of economic behaviors and institutions devoted to the production, distribution, and exchange of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472116348
SKU
V9780472116348
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About Darel Tai Engen
Darel Tai Engen is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos.
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