Preface and acknowledgments
Economics and ancient history
Prices
Introduction: data and hypothesis tests
Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire
Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon
Price behavior in the Roman empire
Markets in the Roman empire
Introduction: Roman microeconomics
The grain trade
The labor market
Land ownership
Financial intermediation
The Roman economy
Introduction: Roman macroeconomics
Growth theory for ancient economies
Economic growth in a Malthusian empire
Appendix to chapter 10
Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire
References
Index.