Managing information in the Roman economy / Cristina Rosillo-López, Marta García Morcillo, editors.
Rosillo López, Cristina, editor.; García Morcillo, Marta, editor.
2021
HC39 .M36 2021
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Title
Managing information in the Roman economy / Cristina Rosillo-López, Marta García Morcillo, editors.
ISBN
3030541002 (electronic book)
9783030541002 (electronic bk.)
9783030540999 hardback
3030540995 hardback
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54100-2
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-54100-2 doi
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HC39 .M36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.937
Summary
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantages and inequalities; at the same time, it is a source of profit, legal and illegal, and of transaction costs. The contributions that make up the present book aim to deepen our understanding of the economy of Ancient Rome by identifying and analysing formal and informal systems of knowledge and institutions that contributed to control, manage, restrict and enhance information. The chapters scrutinize the impact of information asymmetries on specific economic sectors, such as the labour market and the market of real estate, as well as the world of professional associations and trading networks. It further discusses structures and institutions that facilitated and regulated economic information in the public and the private spheres, such as market places, auctions, financial mechanisms and instruments, state treasures and archives. Managing Asymmetric Information in the Roman Economy invites the reader to evaluate economic activities within a larger collective mental, social, and political framework, and aims ultimately to test the applicability of tools and ideas from theoretical frameworks such as the Economics of Information to ancient and comparative historical research.
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Rosillo López, Cristina, editor.
García Morcillo, Marta, editor.
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Palgrave studies in ancient economies.
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1. Asymmetric Information and the Roman Economy: Introduction
2. Economics and Information: Asymmetries, Uncertainties and Risks
Part 1: Information Management
3. Managing Economic Public Information in Rome: the Aerarium as Central Archive of the Roman Republic
4. Managing Uncertainty and Asymmetric Information in Roman Auctions
Part 2: The Real Estate and Land Property Market
5. Asymmetric Information, ager publicus and the Roman Land Market in the Second Century BC
6. Domum pestilentem vendo: Real Estate Market and Information Asymmetry in the Roman World
7. Marriage and Asymmetric Information on the Real Estate Market in Roman Egypt
Part 3: The Labour Market
8. Information Asymmetry and the Roman Labour Market
9. Asymmetric information and adverse selection in the Roman slave market: the limits of legal remedy
Part 4: Trade and Financial Markets
10. Information Landscapes and Economic Practice in the Roman World
11. Roman Professional collegia and Economic Control. A Monopoly of Information?
12. A case of Arbitrage in a Worldwide Trade: Roman Coins in India
13. Information Governance in Roman Finance
14. Conclusions.

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