Honor and profit : Athenian trade policy and the economy and society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E. / Darel Tai Engen.
2010
HF376.A7 E54 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Honor and profit : Athenian trade policy and the economy and society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E. / Darel Tai Engen.
Author
Engen, Darel Tai, 1963-
ISBN
9780472116348 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472116347 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472116347 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 400 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
HF376.A7 E54 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.938/506
Summary
Honor & 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 goods.
Honor & Profit merges theory with empirical historical evidence to illustrate the complexity and dynamism of the ancient Greek economy. The author's conclusions have broad implications for our understanding not only of Athens and environs but also of the social and political history of Greece and the ancient Mediterranean world. --Book Jacket.
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 goods.
Honor & Profit merges theory with empirical historical evidence to illustrate the complexity and dynamism of the ancient Greek economy. The author's conclusions have broad implications for our understanding not only of Athens and environs but also of the social and political history of Greece and the ancient Mediterranean world. --Book Jacket.
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Table of Contents
Approaches to the ancient Greek economy
Historical context
Goods and services: what did Athens honor?
Honorands: whom did Athens honor?
Honorary language
Honors
Privileges.
Historical context
Goods and services: what did Athens honor?
Honorands: whom did Athens honor?
Honorary language
Honors
Privileges.