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Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy
Central aims of the book
Who will read this? target audiences
Lingering questions about imperial Rome
The many faces of Roman economic history
From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence
The contribution of modern thinking to ancient problems
Book organization
Terms and definitions
The gift that kept on giving: perpetual endowments and the role of prosociality in rome's economic development
The evolution of prosocial traits from the early days of Rome
Prosociality, charity, and social capital: how elite benefaction came to be
Perpetual foundations: the gift that kept on giving
What lies under the epiphenomena?
Investing in the Roman economy: material evidence for economic development
Benefactions as wealth generators
Investment opportunities in the Roman economy
Money in the Roman economy: the numismatic evidence
Supplying the demand: coinage, monetization, and market development
Aligning public and private interests: public building, private money, and urban development
Public needs and private incentives
Rome: a world of cities
Public building in the cities of roman africa: a case study
Urbanization and the development of the non-agrarian sectors
The surprisingly short reach of the roman state
The public deeds of private citizens
Aligning interests
Measuring economic performance beyond gdp: economic growth, income inequality, and roman living standards
Real growth in the pre-modern world? debates, controversies, and confusion in roman economic history
Proxy evidence: extrapolation or hypothesis testing?
Rome's 99%: economic capacity and the distribution of wealth
Sharing the spoils of success: increasing living standards with public goods
Collective action and prosociality in the creation of public goods
From prosociality to civil strife: conflict, stagnation, and growing regional divides in the third century ce
An overview of the 'crises' of the third century
What really happened after 235 CE?
Money, investment, and markets
Production and exchange
The end of Roman prosociality?
Conclusion: Rome's place in a global history of development.
Central aims of the book
Who will read this? target audiences
Lingering questions about imperial Rome
The many faces of Roman economic history
From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence
The contribution of modern thinking to ancient problems
Book organization
Terms and definitions
The gift that kept on giving: perpetual endowments and the role of prosociality in rome's economic development
The evolution of prosocial traits from the early days of Rome
Prosociality, charity, and social capital: how elite benefaction came to be
Perpetual foundations: the gift that kept on giving
What lies under the epiphenomena?
Investing in the Roman economy: material evidence for economic development
Benefactions as wealth generators
Investment opportunities in the Roman economy
Money in the Roman economy: the numismatic evidence
Supplying the demand: coinage, monetization, and market development
Aligning public and private interests: public building, private money, and urban development
Public needs and private incentives
Rome: a world of cities
Public building in the cities of roman africa: a case study
Urbanization and the development of the non-agrarian sectors
The surprisingly short reach of the roman state
The public deeds of private citizens
Aligning interests
Measuring economic performance beyond gdp: economic growth, income inequality, and roman living standards
Real growth in the pre-modern world? debates, controversies, and confusion in roman economic history
Proxy evidence: extrapolation or hypothesis testing?
Rome's 99%: economic capacity and the distribution of wealth
Sharing the spoils of success: increasing living standards with public goods
Collective action and prosociality in the creation of public goods
From prosociality to civil strife: conflict, stagnation, and growing regional divides in the third century ce
An overview of the 'crises' of the third century
What really happened after 235 CE?
Money, investment, and markets
Production and exchange
The end of Roman prosociality?
Conclusion: Rome's place in a global history of development.