Rome''s Economic Revolution

Zusatztext 'It will create a great deal of further interest and even more argument.' Informationen zum Autor Dr Philip Kay is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Klappentext Kay examines the economic change in Rome between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He focuses on how the increased inflow of bullion and expansion of the availability of credit resulted in real per capita economic growth in the Italian peninsula, radically changing the composition and scale of the Roman economy. Zusammenfassung Kay examines the economic change in Rome between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He focuses on how the increased inflow of bullion and expansion of the availability of credit resulted in real per capita economic growth in the Italian peninsula, radically changing the composition and scale of the Roman economy.

Summary

Kay examines the economic change in Rome between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He focuses on how the increased inflow of bullion and expansion of the availability of credit resulted in real per capita economic growth in the Italian peninsula, radically changing the composition and scale of the Roman economy.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Kay, Philip (Supernumerary Fellow Kay
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2016
• EAN: 9780198788546
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878854-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy; Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics