Jean Andreau

Banking and Business in the Roman World

Herausgeber: Cartledge, P. A.; Garnsey, P. D. A.

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Produktbeschreibung

In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers were handling enormous sums and exploiting the provinces of the Empire. Until now no book has presented a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life as a whole, from the time of the appearance of the first bankers' shops in the Forum between 318 and 310 BC down to the end of the Principate in AD 284. Professor Andreau writes of the business deals of the elite and the professional bankers and also of the interventions of the state. To what extent did the spirit of profit and enterprise predominate over the traditional values of the city of Rome? And what economic role did these financiers play? How should we compare that role to that of their counterparts in later periods.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The financial activities of the elites; 3. Banks and bankers; 4. Other categories of financiers; 5. Dependants; 6. The tablets of Murecine; 7. The tesserae nummulariae; 8. The interest rate; 9. Rome's responses to financiers and financial crises; 10. The financial activities of the city of Rome and of the empire; 11. The problem of quantities and quantitative developments; 12. Financial life in Roman society and its economy.

This is the first book to present a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life from the fourth century BC to the end of the third century AD.

The first synthetic view of banking and financial life in ancient Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521389327
• ISBN-10: 0521389321
• Artikelnr.: 21763930

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The financial activities of the elites
3. Banks and bankers
4. Other categories of financiers
5. Dependants
6. The tablets of Murecine
7. The tesserae nummulariae
8. The interest rate
9. Rome's responses to financiers and financial crises
10. The financial activities of the city of Rome and of the empire
11. The problem of quantities and quantitative developments
12. Financial life in Roman society and its economy.