Overview
In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availability of credit to produce significant growth in monetary liquidity. This, in turn, stimulated market developments, such as investment farming, trade, construction, and manufacturing, and radically changed the composition and scale of the Roman economy. Using a wide range of evidence and scholarly investigation, Kay demonstrates how Rome, in the second and first centuries BC, became a coherent economic entity experiencing real per capita economic growth. Without an understanding of this economic revolution, the contemporaneous political and cultural changes in Roman society cannot be fully comprehended or explained.
Full Product Details
Author: Philip Kay (Supernumerary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.732kg
ISBN: 9780199681549
ISBN 10: 0199681546
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 23 January 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[Kay] presents an overall analysis of great power and often gives the best available account of important elements in the story ... He is the first scholar to have asked whether inflation ... negated the apparent economic growth of the second century. W.V. Harris, Times Literary Supplement It will create a great deal of further interest and even more argument. Peter Jones, Classics for All
It will create a great deal of further interest and even more argument. * Peter Jones, Classics for All * [Kay] presents an overall analysis of great power and often gives the best available account of important elements in the story ... He is the first scholar to have asked whether inflation ... negated the apparent economic growth of the second century. * W.V. Harris, Times Literary Supplement *
[Kay] presents an overall analysis of great power and often gives the best available account of important elements in the story ... He is the first scholar to have asked whether inflation ... negated the apparent economic growth of the second century. W.V. Harris, Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
Dr Philip Kay is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. In addition to his academic work, he also runs his own investment management business.
