1st Edition
The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities New Perspectives on the Economic History of Classical Antiquity
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
John T. Fitzgerald, David B. Hollander, and Thomas R. Blanton IV
1. The Extramercantile Economy: An Assessment of the New Institutional Economics: Paradigm in Relation to Recent Studies of Ancient Greece and Rome
Thomas R. Blanton IV and David B. Hollander
2. Early Greek Economic Thought
John T. Fitzgerald
3. Benefactors, Markets, and Trust in the Roman East: Civic Munificence as Extramercantile Exchange
Arjan Zuiderhoek
4. Euergetism and the Embedded Economy of the Greek Polis
Marc Domingo Gygax
5. The Economic and Cognitive Impacts of Personal Benefaction in Hispania Tarraconensis
Rachel Meyers
6. New Institutional Economics, Euergetism, and Associations
John S. Kloppenborg
7. The Economics of Solidarity: Mutual Aid and Reciprocal Services between Workers in Roman Cities
Nicolas Tran
Epilogue
David B. Hollander and Thomas R. Blanton IV
Index
Biography
David B. Hollander is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University, USA.
Thomas R. Blanton IV is Auxiliary Professor in New Testament Studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA.
John T. Fitzgerald is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
