Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎List of Illustrations -- ‎Figures -- ‎Tables -- ‎Maps -- ‎List of Roman Emperors -- ‎Central Roman Emperors -- ‎Gallic Emperors -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaching the Imperial Roman Economy -- ‎1. Central Aims of the Book -- ‎2. Who Will Read This? Target Audiences -- ‎3. Lingering Questions about Imperial Rome -- ‎4. The Many Faces of Roman Economic History -- ‎5. From Fine-Grained to 'Big Picture': Methods and Treatment of the Evidence -- ‎6. The Contribution of Modern Thinking to Ancient Problems -- ‎7. Book Organization -- ‎8. Terms and Definitions -- ‎Chapter 2. The Gift That Kept On Giving: Perpetual Endowments and the Role of Prosociality in Rome's Economic Development -- ‎1. The Evolution of Prosocial Traits from the Early Days of Rome -- ‎2. Prosociality, Charity, and Social Capital: How Elite Benefaction Came to Be -- ‎3. Perpetual Foundations: The Gift That Kept On Giving -- ‎4. What Lies under the Epiphenomena? -- ‎Chapter 3. Investing in the Roman Economy: Material Evidence for Economic Development -- ‎1. Benefactions as Wealth Generators -- ‎2. Investment Opportunities in the Roman Economy -- ‎3. Money in the Roman Economy: The Numismatic Evidence -- ‎4. Supplying the Demand: Coinage, Monetization, and Market Development -- ‎Chapter 4. Aligning Public and Private Interests: Public Building, Private Money, and Urban Development -- ‎1. Public Needs and Private Incentives -- ‎2. Rome: A World of Cities -- ‎3. Public Building in the Cities of Roman Africa: A Case Study -- ‎4. Urbanization and the Development of the Non-agrarian Sectors -- ‎5. The Surprisingly Short Reach of the Roman State -- ‎6. The Public Deeds of Private Citizens -- ‎7. Aligning Interests -- ‎Chapter 5. Measuring Economic Performance beyond GDP: Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Roman Living Standards.

‎1. Real Growth in the Pre-modern World? Debates, Controversies, and Confusion in Roman Economic History -- ‎2. Proxy Evidence: Extrapolation or Hypothesis Testing? -- ‎3. Rome's 99%: Economic Capacity and the Distribution of Wealth -- ‎4. Sharing the Spoils of Success: Increasing Living Standards with Public Goods -- ‎5. Collective Action and Prosociality in the Creation of Public Goods -- ‎Chapter 6. From Prosociality to Civil Strife: Conflict, Stagnation, and Growing Regional Divides in the Third Century CE -- ‎1. An Overview of the 'Crises' of the Third Century -- ‎2. What Really Happened after 235CE? -- ‎3. Money, Investment, and Markets -- ‎4. Production and Exchange -- ‎5. The End of Roman Prosociality? -- ‎Conclusion: Rome's Place in a Global History of Development -- ‎Appendix 1. List of Inscriptions from the Western Empire Recording Interest being Drawn -- ‎Appendix 2. List of Building Inscriptions from the North African Provinces Recording the Sponsor -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.

In Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain some of the remarkable achievements of Imperial Rome.

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