Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Peter Temin
Author-Workplace-Name: MIT (Visiting Nuffield College, Oxford)
Title:  A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire
Abstract: I argue that the economy of the early Roman Empire was primarily a market economy. The parts of this economy located far from each other were not tied together as tightly as markets often are today, but they still functioned as part of a comprehensive Mediterranean market. This conclusion is important because it brings the description of the Roman economy as a whole into accord with the fragmentary evidence we have about individual market transactions. In addition, this synthetic view provides a platform on which to investigate further questions about the origins and eventual demise of the Roman economy and about conditions for the formation and preservation of markets in general.
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Length: 40 pages
Creation-Date: 2001-03-01
Number: _039
File-URL: http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/papers/2275/39temin.PDF
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Handle: RePEc:nuf:esohwp:_039