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The stakes of cliometrics in ancient history
Das Infragestellen von Kliometrie in der Alten Geschichte
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Abstract "According to Finley, markets and economic motivations played little, if any, role in ancient economies. Status and civic ideology governed the allocation of scarce resources. Hence, the application of economic theory to the ancient economy was at best a futile exercise and at worst a source of grav... view more
"According to Finley, markets and economic motivations played little, if any, role in ancient economies. Status and civic ideology governed the allocation of scarce resources. Hence, the application of economic theory to the ancient economy was at best a futile exercise and at worst a source of grave misunderstandings. Temin's contributions lead to other conclusions and, as in the myth of Sisyphus, the boulder seems again to be at the bottom of the hill! The author's feeling is that the Gordian knot remains the same now as over the past decades: should cliometrics be used in the social sciences/humanities in general, and ancient history especially?" (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
economic history; method; economic theory; market economy; antiquity; Roman Empire; economy; economic research; Greece; quantitative method; measurement; research approach; research status
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics
Method
basic research; historical; development of methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 350-361
Journal
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.3.350-361
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed