Pliny's Roman economy : natural history, encyclopedism, prosperity /
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| Author / Creator: | Saller, Richard P., author. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022] |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( viii, 198 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton economic history of the Western world Princeton economic history of the Western world. |
| Subject: | Pliny, -- the Elder. -- Naturalis historia. Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) Economics -- Rome -- History. Economic history. Economics. Rome -- Economic conditions. Rome (Empire) |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12722021 |
Table of Contents:
- Proxies for Economic Performance in the Roman Empire
- Excursus: Morgantina
- Pliny's Purpose, Audience, and Method
- Excursus: Pliny on Remedies for Rabies
- Parens Natura and Smithian Growth
- Innovation and Economic Growth in the Natural History
- Excursus: Aulus Gellius on Pliny and the Culture Of Authoritative Knowledge
- Pliny's Economic Observations and Reasoning
- "Utility" and the Afterlife of the Natural History
- Excursus: Fulling as an Illustration Comparing Pliny's Natural History And
- Chambers' Cyclopaedia
- Conclusion.
