Athenian Economy And Society

Author : Edward Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400820771

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Athenian Economy and Society by Edward Cohen Pdf

In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which bankers are merely pawnbrokers and money-changers, Cohen reveals that fourth-century Athenian bankers pursued sophisticated transactions. These dealings--although technologically far removed from modern procedures--were in financial essence identical with the lending and deposit-taking that separate true "banks" from other businesses. He further explores how the Athenian banks facilitated tax and creditor avoidance among the wealthy, and how women and slaves played important roles in these family businesses--thereby gaining legal rights entirely unexpected in a society supposedly dominated by an elite of male citizens. Special emphasis is placed on the reflection of Athenian cognitive patterns in financial practices. Cohen shows how transactions were affected by the complementary opposites embedded in the very structure of Athenian language and thought. In turn, his analysis offers great insight into daily Athenian reality and cultural organization.

Author : Edward E Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:892465224

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Athenian Economy and Society by Edward E Cohen Pdf

Author : Emmanouil M. L. M.L. Economou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000984033

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The Economy of Classical Athens by Emmanouil M. L. M.L. Economou Pdf

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.

Author : Darel Tai Engen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 9780472116348

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Honor and Profit by Darel Tai Engen Pdf

A new assessment of the ancient Athenian economy relying on fresh documentary evidence

Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037363574

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Economy and Society in Ancient Greece by Moses I. Finley Pdf

Eerder, in de jaren 1953 tot '81, verschenen artikelen

Author : A. French
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415377048

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The Growth of the Athenian Economy by A. French Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Barry O’Halloran
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386150

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The Political Economy of Classical Athens by Barry O’Halloran Pdf

In The Political Economy of Classical Athens – a Naval Perspective, Barry O’Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which its strategy of naval conquest provided the foundations for a period of unprecedented economic efflorescence.

Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055982654

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Economy and Society in Ancient Greece by Moses I. Finley Pdf

Author : Edward Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1400824664

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The Athenian Nation by Edward Cohen Pdf

Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical considerations, and accordingly rejects prevailing scholarship's equation of Athens with its male citizen body. In fact, Cohen shows that the categories of "citizen" and "noncitizen" were much more fluid than is often assumed, and that some noncitizens exercised considerable power. He explores such subjects as the economic importance of businesswomen and wealthy slaves; the authority exercised by enslaved public functionaries; the practical egalitarianism of erotic relations and the broad and meaningful protections against sexual abuse of both free persons and slaves, and especially of children; the wide involvement of all sectors of the population in significant religious and local activities. All this emerges from the use of fresh legal, economic, and archaeological evidence and analysis that reveal the social complexity of Athens, and the demographic and geographic factors giving rise to personal anonymity and limiting personal contacts--leading to the creation of an "imagined community" with a mutually conceptualized identity, a unified economy, and national "myths" set in historical fabrication.

Author : Walter Scheidel,Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136069468

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The Ancient Economy by Walter Scheidel,Sitta von Reden Pdf

The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social change and conditions. Leading experts address the central issues, from agricultural production to the uses of money and the creation of markets. Taken as a whole the book exemplifies the range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the ancient economy, and illustrates the methodological approaches scholars have deployed to understand it. In doing so it draws on literary, ecological and archaeological evidence.

Author : George C. Bitros,Emmanouil M. L. Economou,Nicholas C. Kyriazis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000097122

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Democracy and Money by George C. Bitros,Emmanouil M. L. Economou,Nicholas C. Kyriazis Pdf

The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another, which under the prevailing institutional circumstances could develop into a worldwide financial Armageddon. Thinking ahead of such a calamity, this book presents for the first time a model of democratic governance with privately produced money based on the case of Athens in Classical times, and explains why, if it is conceived as a benchmark for reference and adaptation, it may provide an effective way out from the dreadful predicament that state managed fiat money holds for the stability of Western-type democracies and the international financial system. As the U.S. today, Athens at that time reached the apex of its military, economic, political, cultural, and scientific influence in the world. But Athens triumphed through different approaches to democracy and fundamentally different fiscal and monetary policies than the U.S. Thus the readers will have the opportunity to learn about these differences and appreciate the potential they offer for confronting the challenges contemporary democracies face under the leadership of the U.S. The book will find audiences among academics, university students, and researchers across a wide range of fields and subfields, as well as legislators, fiscal and monetary policy makers, and economic and financial consultants.

Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520024362

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The Ancient Economy by Moses I. Finley Pdf

"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Author : M. M. Austin,P. Vidal-Naquet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520042670

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Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece by M. M. Austin,P. Vidal-Naquet Pdf

This book is an English version of the book originally published in French under the title of Economies et societes en Grece ancienne. The opportunity has been taken to correct some errors, update bibliographical references, add a few passage to the selection of ancient sources, and improve the material presentation in several respects. But otherwise this remains substantially the same book as the original French version.The book is aimed in the first place at an undergraduate audience, though it is hoped that it will also be of interest to a wiser, non-specialist readership interested in the history and civilization of Ancient Greece. It attempts to meet a need well-known to all those who have to teach Greek history in universities. Students, long dissatisfied with a purely political approach to Greek history, ask for more 'economic and social' history. One then has to answer--tand this book is a very modest attempt at an answer--that neither the 'economic' nor the 'social' category had in the Greek city the same independent status they now enjoy. The book takes its starting-point in this ambiguity; it accepts the challenge, but rejects the formulation of the question. Anyone who has been asked to explain once and for all the role played by slaves in social conflicts in the Greek world will understand what we mean. — Publisher description.

Author : Michael Leese
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780472132768

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Making Money in Ancient Athens by Michael Leese Pdf

Explores how ancient Athenians made economic decisions

Author : Ben Akrigg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027091

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Population and Economy in Classical Athens by Ben Akrigg Pdf

Systematically explores the changing size and structure of the population of classical Athens and the implications for economic history.