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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
- 12: Geoffrey Parsons Miller: Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law II
- IV. Slavery and the Roman Economy
- 13: Aldo Schiavone: Law, Slaves, and Markets in the Roman Imperial System
- 14: Egbert Koops: The Practice of Manumission through Negotiated Conditions in Imperial Rome
- V. Credit
- 15: Jean Andreau: Banking, Money-Lending, and Elite Financial Life in Rome
- 16: Hendrik L. E. Verhagen: Secured Transactions in Classical Roman Law
- VI. Property
- 17: Robert C. Ellickson: Ancient Rome: Legal Foundations of the Growth of an Indispensable City
- 18: Gary D. Libecap and Dean Lueck: Land Demarcation in Ancient Rome
- 19: Benito Arruñada: The Institutions of Roman Markets
- VII. Dispute Resolution and Remedies
- 20: Richard A. Epstein: One Step at a Time in Roman Law: How Roman Pleading Rules Shape the Substantive Structure of Private Law
- 21: David Friedman: Private Prosecution and Enforcement in Roman Law
- 22: Francesco Parisi, Daniel Pi, Barbara Luppi, and Iole Fargnoli: Deterrence of Wrongdoing in Ancient Law
- 23: Thomas J. Miceli: Collective Responsibility
- 24: Barbara Abatino and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci: The Dual Origin of the Duty to Disclose in Roman Law
- 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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The chapters are particularly strong in giving rationale to a specific legal setup and undergird their hypotheses with insightful economic models and calculations.
