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Wages Welfare Costs And Inflation In Classical Athens
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Book Synopsis Wages, Welfare Costs, and Inflation in Classical Athens by : William T. Loomis
Download or read book Wages, Welfare Costs, and Inflation in Classical Athens written by William T. Loomis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal reference and analysis of wages and costs in Athens
Book Synopsis Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond by : M. E. Gkikaki
Download or read book Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond written by M. E. Gkikaki and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of essays on symbola, as the tokens of Classical Athens were called, bringing together scholars of various disciplines and professional categories (numismatists, historians, museum curators) that intends to reshape our knowledge on the roles these objects played in the Athenian Democracy. This is a series of case studies which aspires to test old theories and probe new assumptions. The first section explores the extent to which our knowledge has evolved since symbola were first distinguished from coins. Four essays demonstrate how tokens, as material manifestations of particular institutions, contributed to the formation of civic and political identity in the city-state of Athens and the roles they played in ensuring legal and political equality. The second section of the volume on new finds aims to develop expertise in studying tokens and increase relevant knowledge. Finally, a third section contains comparative studies from Sicily, Jerusalem and Ephesos, aiming to adopt a comparative methodology for a better understanding of the characteristics and roles of tokens from across the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors: Vera Geelmuyden Bulgurlu, Tumay Hazinedar Coscun, Antonino Crisà, Yoav Farhi, P. J. Finglass, Mairi Gkikaki, Irini Karra, James Kierstead, John H. Kroll, Stamatoula Makrypodi, Christian Mondello, Daria Russo, Martin Schäfer. An Open Access edition will be available on publication.
Book Synopsis Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens by : David M. Pritchard
Download or read book Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens written by David M. Pritchard and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and “the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.” This view of the Athenians’ misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh’s 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmos for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians’ priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh’s time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people.
Book Synopsis Population and Economy in Classical Athens by : Ben Akrigg
Download or read book Population and Economy in Classical Athens written by Ben Akrigg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically explores the changing size and structure of the population of classical Athens and the implications for economic history.
Book Synopsis The Economy of Classical Athens by : Emmanouil M. L. M.L. Economou
Download or read book The Economy of Classical Athens written by Emmanouil M. L. M.L. Economou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy. This book provides a thorough analysis of this transformation and the functioning of the Athenian economy during the Classical period. Through the approach of New Institutional Economics (NIE), the book explores the establishment of key institutions including property rights protection, the legal protection of commercial contracts, prices determined by the forces of supply and demand, institutions against profiteering, banking services, the provision of loans through interest rates, consumer credit, insurance companies and a (primitive) version of joint-stock companies. Furthermore, the book focuses on the structure of the public sector, on how the state budget was determined and on how decisions on public revenues and expenditures were made. It also provides an integrated and detailed analysis of the social welfare policies that were implemented through the provision of a variety of public goods in Classical Athens. Moreover, it focuses on a series of socio-economic aspects such as the social status of women, slaves and foreigners and the viewpoints of prominent Athenian philosophers regarding economic organization. Finally, the book investigates whether an Athenian economic-political model of governance, based on a combination of advanced economic institutions (of free market type logic, even if in a primordial form) and direct democracy principles, can provide any lessons for modern societies. The book will be of great interest to readers of the economy, history and society of Ancient Greece as well as economic historians, ancient historians and policymakers more broadly.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Classical Athens by : Barry O’Halloran
Download or read book The Political Economy of Classical Athens written by Barry O’Halloran and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O’Halloran seeks to contribute to this renewed debate by re-interrogating the ancient evidence using more recent economic interpretative frameworks. The aim is to re-evaluate accepted orthodoxies and present the economic history of this emblematic city-state in a new light. More specifically, it analyses the economic foundations of Athens through the prism of its navy. Its macroeconomic approach utilises an employment-demand model through which enormous naval defence expenditures created an exceptional period of demand-led economic growth.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Friendship by : Tazuko van Berkel
Download or read book The Economics of Friendship written by Tazuko van Berkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of the notion of reciprocity in 5th- and 4th-century Greek incepting social theory. The preoccupation with the norms of philia and charis, conspicuous in sources from the Classical Period, is a symptom of changes in the shape of ancient economic activities: the ubiquitous norm that one should reciprocate benefit with benefit becomes a source of conceptual confusion in the Classical Period, where other forms of exchange become conceptually available. This confusion and tension between different models of mutuality, is productive: it is the impetus for folk theory in comedy, tragedy and oratory, as well as philosophical reflection (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle) on what it is that binds people together.
Book Synopsis Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies by : Charlotte Van Regenmortel
Download or read book Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies written by Charlotte Van Regenmortel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new assessments and translations of key documents, Charlotte Van Regenmortel studies the changing nature of paid service in the royal armies of the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, arguing for the emergence of military wage labour as the principal stimulus to the economic transformation of the Hellenistic age.
Book Synopsis Daily Life in Classical Athens by : Emmanouil M. L. Economou
Download or read book Daily Life in Classical Athens written by Emmanouil M. L. Economou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens by : David Pritchard
Download or read book War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens written by David Pritchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
Book Synopsis Athenian Democracy by : Peter John Rhodes
Download or read book Athenian Democracy written by Peter John Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the direct government of the people by the people. Liberty means above all freedom of speech, the right to be heard in the public assembly and the right to speak one's mind in private. Equality meant the equal right of male citizens (perhaps 60,000 in the fifth century, 30,000 in the fourth) to participate in the government of the state and the administration of the law. Disapproved of as a mob rule until the nineteenth century, the institutions of Athenian democracy have become an inspiration for modern democratic politics and political philosophy. P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German, and French scholarship on its origins, theory, and practice. Part I is devoted to political institutions: citizenship, the assembly, the law-courts, and capital punishment. Part II explores aspects of political activity: the demagogues and their relationship with the assembly, the maneuverings of the politicians, competitive festivals, and the separation of public from private life. Part III looks at three crucial points in the development of the democracy: the reforms of Solon, Cleisthenes, and Ephialtes. Part IV considers what it was in Greek life that led to the development of democracy. Some of the authors adopt broad-brush approaches to major questions; others analyze a particular body of evidence in detail. Use is made of archeology, comparison with other societies, the location of festivals in their civic context, and the need to penetrate behind what the classical Athenians made of their past.
Book Synopsis The Treasures of Alexander the Great by : Frank Lee Holt
Download or read book The Treasures of Alexander the Great written by Frank Lee Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the kinds and quantities of treasure seized by Alexander the Great, from gold and silver to land and slaves, and reassesses the widespread belief that the Macedonian king used the profits of war to improve the ancient economies he conquered. It reveals what became of the king's wealth and what Alexander's redistribution of these vast resources can tell us about his much-disputed policies and personality.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by : Jenifer Neils
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens written by Jenifer Neils and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Book Synopsis Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens by : David Pritchard
Download or read book Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens written by David Pritchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors.
Book Synopsis Making Money in Ancient Athens by : Michael Leese
Download or read book Making Money in Ancient Athens written by Michael Leese and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how ancient Athenians made economic decisions
Book Synopsis Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece by : Takeshi Amemiya
Download or read book Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece written by Takeshi Amemiya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding to the small amount that has been written on this aspect of economic history, Amemiya, a leading economist based at Stanford University, analyzes the exact nature of the ancient Greek economy, offering an unprecedented broad and comprehensive survey.
Book Synopsis Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece by : Samuel D. Gartland
Download or read book Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece written by Samuel D. Gartland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in ancient Greece. The work focusses on improving techniques for witnessing the lives of such groups, understanding their common experiences, and through these, seeing their common humanity.
