Law and economic performance in the Roman world [electronic resource] / edited by Koenraad Verboven, Paul Erdkamp.

"This book offers critical analyses of the dynamic relation between legal regulations, institutions and economic performance in the Roman world. It studies how law and legal thought affected economic development, and vice versa. Inspired by New Institutional Economics scholars the past decades used...

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Corporate Author: Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World (Conference) Brussels, Belgium)
Other Authors: Verboven, Koenraad (Editor)
Erdkamp, Paul (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Series:Impact of empire, volume 44
Subjects:
Roman law > Economic aspects > Congresses.
Rome > Economic conditions > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Online Access:
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023: 2023 (Brill)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : legal systems and economic development / Koenraad Verboven and Paul Erdkamp
  • Private property rights and public claims on land in the Roman Empire / Dennis Kehoe
  • Hadrian, middlemen, and the exploitation of imperial domains / Alberto Dalla Rosa
  • Adapting imperial economic choices to regional contexts : new evidence from the Sermo Procvratorvm and the Lex Hadriana / Hernan Gonzáles Bordaz
  • The effectiveness of the early Roman law of obligations for bankers / Philip Kay
  • What were the partes in the Roman tax farming companies? / Boudewijn Sirks
  • Goods, law and trade : material evidence for lease and hire contracts (locatio conductio) and a grain sample recorded in CIL 4.9591 131 / Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
  • Creating and linking socio-economic and legal frames : cicero's pro quinctio / Sven Günther
  • The pretium in numerata pecunia controversy and the Jewish debate over the acquisition of movables / Merav Haklai
  • Reliance in the face of death : considerations on roman economy and fideicommissa / Ulrike Babusiaux
  • Roman citizens in the legal economy of a Greek polis : the case of private donations to public bodies / Lina Girdvainyte
  • Banking, credit and loans in the novels of the Emperor Justinian / Peter Sarris
  • Roman Law, Commercial Law and Levin Goldschmidt's Legacy / Stefania Gialdroni.