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The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous potential to illuminate the origins of Roman legal institutions in response to changes in the economic activities that they regulated. These two volumes combine approaches from legal history and economic history with methods borrowed from economics to offer a new interdisciplinary approach.
List of contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1: Geoffrey Parsons Miller: Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law I
- I. Institutions
- 2: Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen, and Dennis P. Kehoe: What Can the Endogenous Institutions Literature Tell Us About Ancient Rome?
- 3: Eric A. Posner: The Constitution of the Roman Republic
- 4: Luuk de Ligt: Law-Making and Economic Change during the Republic and Early Empire
- II. Markets and Trade
- 5: Elio Lo Cascio: Setting the Rules of the Game: The Market and its Working in the Roman Empire
- 6: Peter Temin: Statistics in Ancient History: Prices and Trade in the Pax Romana
- 7: Ron Harris: The Organization of India-to-Rome Trade: Loans and Agents in the Muziris Papyrus
- III. Organizing Business
- 8: Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman, and Richard Squire: Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce
- 9: Andreas Martin Fleckner: Roman Business Associations
- 10: Barbara Abatino and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci: Agency Problems and Organizational Costs in Slave-Run Businesses
- 11: Dennis P. Kehoe: Mandate and the Management of Business in the Roman Empire
- Endmatter
- Index
About the author
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci is an Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His research currently focuses on the theory and historical emergence of business organizations, the network structure of codes and constitutions, the economics of shareholder lawsuits, standard form and relational contracts, and carrots versus sticks.
Dennis P. Kehoe is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities (Classical Studies) at Tulane University. His research interests centre on Roman social and economic history and Roman law, with his current work focusing on the role of legal institutions in shaping the economy of the Roman Empire.
Summary
The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous potential to illuminate the origins of Roman legal institutions in response to changes in the economic activities that they regulated. These two volumes combine approaches from legal history and economic history with methods borrowed from economics to offer a new interdisciplinary approach.
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...a very necessary step in historical research.
