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Format: 1 online resource (495 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783031582103

Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies Series

Note: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Models, Methods, and Morality in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Economies -- 1 Why Models, Methods, and Morality? -- 2 Morality Past and Present -- 3 Critiquing Current Models -- 4 Quantification and Comparison -- 5 Future Paths for Ancient Economic History: Should the Study of Ancient Economies Be Moral? -- 6 The Volume's Contents -- References -- Part I Methods and Historiography -- 2 For Those Who Curse the Candle: A Culturally and Historically Relativistic Proposal for Rethinking the Approach to the Ancient Economy (via Archaic Rome) -- 1 The Economic History of Antiquity: An "Academic Battleground," to a Certain Extent -- 2 Karl Polanyi's Relativism, and Moses Finley's Anti-relativistic (Para)Substantivism -- 3 (Douglass North's) NIE, the Social Development Model and Historians of the Ancient Economy's Anti-relativistic Exception -- 4 Toward a Relativistic Definition of Economy, and an Emic-Based Method of Approach -- 5 A Case Study. Some Aspects of the "Economy" of Archaic Rome: Grave Goods, Houses, Farms, Lands and Public Buildings -- Census, res mancipi, agri cultura and parsimonia -- References -- 3 Can Ancient History Still Engage the Social Sciences? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Institutional Economics Is Not Neoclassical Economics -- 3 The Evolution of Institutional Economics -- Rational Actors -- Equilibrium Dynamics -- Economic Growth -- 4 The Contribution of Ancient History -- Outcomes and Measures -- Institutional Practice -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Creation of Wealth and Inequality in the Graeco-Roman World: Tactics from Law and Racial Capitalism -- 1 NIE, a Personal History -- 2 Laws of History/Law in History -- 3 Wealth Trickling Up. Imperial Power, Patronage, and Inheritance in the Roman World. , 4 (Not) Foreclosing Perspectives -- 5 Inequalities Trickling Down. Race, Gender, and Predatory Inclusion in the Roman World -- 6 Stepping into the Crack -- References -- Part II Measurement and Morality -- 5 The Economics of Immorality: The U.S. Antebellum South, Stalinist Russia and the Roman Empire -- 1 Morality and Models -- 2 Time on the Cross Versus Conquerors and Slaves -- 3 Roman Economic Growth from a Moral Perspective -- 4 The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin -- 5 The Economics of Immorality -- Bibliography -- 6 Before the Economy? Growth, Institutions, and the Late Bronze Age -- 1 Growth in the Late Bronze Age -- Demography -- Houses -- Discussion -- 2 Why Not the Bronze Age? -- 3 Quantitative Dimensions -- 4 Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss -- References -- 7 Standardization as Economic Institution -- 1 Data -- Metrology -- Manufacture -- 2 The Bigger Picture -- 3 Metrology, Standardization, and the Importance of Institutions -- Bibliography -- 8 Towards an Ethics of Quantification: Relationality, "Common Sense," and Incommensurability -- 1 Risky Business -- 2 Limits and Rewards -- 3 Hypnosis and Fetish: A Parting Shot -- Bibliography -- Part III Paths Forward -- 9 Science, Morality, and the Roman Economy -- 1 Complexity Economics -- Problems with Equilibrium Economics -- Complexity Science as Alternative? -- The Emergence of Early Roman Slavery -- 2 Environmental Science -- The Historiography of Environmental Science and Ancient Economies -- Challenging the Roman Climate Optimum -- From Climate Back to Environment -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- 10 The Other Side of the Ledger: Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Energy Capture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Growth at What Cost? The Other Side of the Ledger -- 3 Assessing Economic Performance: What to Measure and How? -- 4 Architecture, Energy Capture, and Human Economies. , 5 Humans and Monuments: The Human Dynamics of Building at Mycenae, Eleutherai, and Zea -- Quantifying Human Costs: General Principles -- The Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, ca. 1250 BCE -- Quantitative Costs: Energy Capture -- Quantitative Costs: Fatalities -- Quantitative Costs: Staple Production and Finance -- Qualitative Costs: Quality of Life for Workers -- Qualitative Costs: Quality of Life for Local Community -- Benefits: Cui Bono? -- Brief Comparative Case 1: The Fortress of Eleutherai, Attic/Boeotian Borderlands, ca. 370 BCE -- Brief Comparative Case 2: The Shipsheds at Zea Harbor, Piraeus, ca. 350 BCE -- 6 The Other Side of the Ledger: Net Human Impacts of Three Greek Construction Projects -- 7 Taking a Long View: Paying It Forward? -- 8 Refining Methods for Measuring Economic Costs and Human Benefits -- 9 Conclusions: The Other Side of the Ledger -- References -- 11 These Old Bones: An Osteobiography of an Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Life Stories from Bones -- 3 Entheseal Change (EC) and Osteoarthritis (OA) -- 4 The Archaic Cemetery at Agia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki -- 5 Osteobiographies of Young Adults from Agia Paraskevi -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 The "Health Problem" in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon -- 1 Multiple Etiologies, Singular Proxies -- Stature -- Caries -- Linear Enamel Hypoplasia -- Cribra Orbitalia -- Stable Isotope Analysis -- 2 Comparing Proxies: A Sketch from Some Italian Cemeteries -- 3 Conclusions -- 4 Cemeteries, Location and Source Data Bibliography -- References -- 13 Why a Human Ancient Economy Should Be Posthuman -- 1 Unruly Things-and Their Denial-in North's New Institutional Economics -- 2 Posthumanism and the Question of the Human -- 3 Embedded Subjectivities -- 4 Embodied Care -- 5 Scaling up -- References -- Part IV Responses. , 14 The Perils-and Rewards-of Constantly Re-inventing the Wheel -- 1 Racism, Capitalism, and Racial Capitalism -- 2 Marxism and Social Democratic Thought -- 3 Ancient and Modern Political Economy -- 4 Slavery Ancient and Modern -- 5 The Potential of Archaeological Data -- 6 Complexity Economics and the Ideological Dangers of Econometrics -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 15 Cursing the Candle: Models, Methods, and Morality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Morality -- 3 Methods -- 4 Models -- References -- 16 Toward an Historically Informed Understanding of Institutions and Economies -- 1 The Theory We Have -- 2 The Theory We Need -- 3 A Narrative Sketch of Such a Theory -- 4 The Implications of Dynamical Systems Theory for Economic Historians -- References -- 17 Epilogue: The Potentials of a New Ancient Economic History -- 1 A Plurality of Approaches -- 2 Engaging Wider Debates -- 3 Embracing Economic Theory, beyond Northian NIE -- 4 Closing Thoughts: The Other Side of the Ledger -- References -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Murray, Sarah C. Models, Methods, and Morality Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 ISBN 9783031582097

Language: English