Economics Archive
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Meager Returns: Agricultural Wages in Roman Egypt
Posted on January 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper will attempt to shed some light on the identity of these unknown Egyptian laborers and also the economy in which they functioned. -
Mining: The Roman Exploitation of Northwest Spain
Posted on December 19, 2011 | No CommentsThe attitudes associated with Roman infiltration of the upper reaches of northern Spain are best described by the words of Pliny: 'Like conquering heroes the miners contemplate their triumph over nature.' -
Organisation of the Roman Clothing and Textile Industry: Skill, Occupation, and the Gender-Segmented Workforce
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsThis paper draws on ancient evidence to demonstrate that the pattern of industrial relations in the Roman clothing and textile industry exhibits a number of characteristics common to the modern industry. -
Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsThis exercise reveals the extent to which the Roman economy resembled more recent societies and sheds light on the prospects for economic growth in the Roman Empire, for good financial markets and institutions help people who have ideas for production get resources to implement those ideas. -
Huge Ancient Greek commercial area discovered on Sicily
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsBonn archaeologists have began unearthing one of Greek antiquity’s largest craftsmen’s quarters in the colonial city of Selinunte on the island of Sicily -
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor: Minoans and Mycenaeans abroad
Posted on October 23, 2011 | No CommentsRecently, some new finds of frescoes, papyri and weapons of Minoan and Mycenaean inspiration in Egypt and the Near East have brought renewed interest in, and speculation about, the foreign contacts of the Late Bronze Age Aegean -
The Boudican Uprising and the Glass Vessels from Colchester
Posted on September 6, 2011 | No CommentsThe Boudican Uprising and the Glass Vessels from Colchester By Hilary E.M. Cool Expedition, Vol.38:2 (1996) Introduction: In AD 60 the town of Colchester, about 85 kilometers northeast of London,... -
THE HISTORY OF HAIRSTYLES IN THE MIRROR OF ANCIENT COINS
Posted on July 27, 2011 | No CommentsHair has played an important and varied role in the life of people since early times. Hairstyle became an inse- parable element of fashion -
Law and Finance “at the Origin”
Posted on July 24, 2011 | No CommentsLaw and Finance “at the Origin” By Ulrike Malmendier Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2009) Abstract: What are the key determinants of financial development and growth? A... -
Greek Commercial Endeavors in the Antiquity – A Brief Account of the Ancient Commerce of Cassiterite Between Greece and Northern Europe
Posted on July 23, 2011 | No CommentsGreek Commercial Endeavors in the Antiquity – A Brief Account of the Ancient Commerce of Cassiterite Between Greece and Northern Europe By Ioannis Michaletos Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and...