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Help in understanding the Roman imperial economy - WALTER SCHEIDEL (ed.), THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ROMAN ECONOMY (Cambridge University Press 2012). Pp. xiii + 443, figs. 6. ISBN 978-0-521-72688-7 (pbk.).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

W. V. Harris
W. V. Harris*
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Department of History, Columbia University, New York, [email protected]
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 660 - 664
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1 I may be prejudiced by own involvement in that project.

2 A. Giardina contributed an outstanding chapter, but what was needed was a set of chapters.

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4 A rather poor index makes the book harder to use.

5 And in this volume P. Erdkamp expresses “much sympathy for … the primitivist approach to the ancient economy” (243).

6 It does not put a reviewer in a good frame of mind to see his opinion misrepresented, as on 29 (on the subject of taxation).

7 See my article “Literacy and epigraphy II,” in Apicella, C. et al. (edd.), Les affaires de Monsieur Andreau. Économie et société du monde romain (Bordeaux 2014) 290–95Google Scholar.

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12 Bang also adopts from NIE the misleading piece of jargon, “rent-seeking”; he even takes over from Mancur Olson the silly expression “stationary bandit”, referring to the state.

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