Author: Walter Scheidel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-11-29

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 0521780535

In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.