The Roman Market Economy
The Roman Market Economy
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罗马市场经济
DOI：
10.1080/10848770.2015.1046687
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2015
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V. Castellani
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研究古代城市和帝国的历史学家应该注意到本书中经过仔细论证的描述和发现。它讲述了罗马人生活水平的起起落落，以及经济的起起唐斯，几个世纪以来，普通人生活得和工业革命前世界上任何其他地方一样舒适，享受着各种各样负担得起的消费品和耐用品。在凯撒王朝的鼎盛时期，他们的首都。100万人口的罗马可能比世界上任何其他城市都要大，从那里他们统治着一个估计有7000万居民的遥远而持久的多民族王国。非经济学家学者思考了罗马扩张、政府和长寿的经济基础。麻省理工学院经济学荣誉退休教授彼得·泰明（Peter Temin）在职业生涯后期接受了一个明显的挑战，那就是用科学的术语来理解罗马经济（就像过去几个世纪之前的任何其他经济一样），通过科学的测量，应用当前最好的经济理论和分析。非专业的政治、社会和文化历史学家讨论了货币和国家收入、商业和贸易、生活方式和消费;他们的结论是，帝国没有单一的经济，地方市场实际上是孤立的，工业没有活力，主要主食谷物的市场，在首都，被国家/帝国干预牢牢控制，以至于不自由。这在特明看来并不准确。然而，他面临着一个艰巨的挑战来纠正它，这不仅是因为他“收到了”
Historians of ancient Rome—city and empire—should be aware of this book’s carefully argued descriptions and findings. It treats the rise and fall of the Roman standard of living, and ups and downs of an economy that for centuries made it possible for the average person to live as comfortably and enjoy as great a variety of affordable consumable and durable goods as in any other part of the world before the Industrial Revolution. At the height of the Caesars’ power their capital city of ca. one million inhabitants was likely larger than any other city in the world, and from there they ruled a far-flung, long-lasting multiethnic realm of an estimated 70 million inhabitants.Non-economist scholars have pondered the economic foundations of Rome’s expansion, government, and longevity. Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, late in his career rose to the obvious challenge of understanding the Roman economy (like any other before the last few centuries) in scientific terms, by scientific measurements, applying best current economic theory and analysis. Non-specialist political, social, and cultural historians have discussed money and national revenue, business and commerce, and lifestyles and consumption; and they concluded that there was no single economy in the empire, that its local markets were effectively isolated, that industries were not dynamic, and that the market in the primary staple, grain, at the capital, was so firmly controlled by state/imperial intervention as to be unfree. This did not seem accurate to Temin. A daunting challenge he faced to correct it, however, not only because he had “received