Trade and Empire: - in search of organizing concepts for the Roman economy
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Trade and Empire : - in search of organizing concepts for the Roman economy. / Bang, Peter Fibiger.
In: Past & Present a journal of historical studies, Vol. 195, 2007, p. 3-54.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Trade and Empire
T2 - - in search of organizing concepts for the Roman economy
AU - Bang, Peter Fibiger
N1 - Roman economic hiostory, empire and market, protection costs
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This articles seeks to establish a new set of organizing concepts for the analysis of the Roman imperial economy from Republic to late antiquity: tributary empire, port-folio capitalism and protection costs. Together these concepts explain better economic developments in the Roman world than the much used notion of an imperial market economy. Roman imperial government was to weak to provide the institutional supports needed by a well functioning laissez-faire economy.
AB - This articles seeks to establish a new set of organizing concepts for the analysis of the Roman imperial economy from Republic to late antiquity: tributary empire, port-folio capitalism and protection costs. Together these concepts explain better economic developments in the Roman world than the much used notion of an imperial market economy. Roman imperial government was to weak to provide the institutional supports needed by a well functioning laissez-faire economy.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - romersk økonomisk historie, imperie og marked, beskyttelsesomkostninger
KW - Roman economic hiostory, empire and market, protection costs
M3 - Journal article
VL - 195
SP - 3
EP - 54
JO - Past & Present
JF - Past & Present
SN - 0031-2746
ER -
ID: 1778130