Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Saller, Richard P.
Titre(s) : Pliny's Roman economy [Texte imprimé] : natural history, innovation, and growth / Richard P. Saller
Publication : Princeton (N. J.) : Princeton University Press, copyright [2022]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : The Princeton economic history of the Western world
Lien à la collection : The Princeton economic history of the Western world
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index
"Recent works by economic historians of early modern Europe have argued for a link
between encyclopedias of the 18th century and the developments culminating in the
Industrial Revolution. Diderot and D'Alembert's great Encyclopedie aimed to disseminate
useful knowledge for productive growth and was one of the most visible contributions
to what economic historian Joel Mokyr has labelled a "culture of growth." While the
Ancient Romans didn't have anything like these encyclopedias, they did have its very
popular and acknowledged ancestor, the thirty-seven books of Pliny's Natural History.
Much has been written about Pliny's view of nature, his scientific thought, his ideology
of empire, and so on, but there has been no comparable effort to probe Pliny's economic
views and the impact, if any, of his history on Roman economic growth. In Pliny's
Roman Economy, eminent Roman historian Richard Saller aims to bring together the economic
observations and instances of financial reasoning scattered throughout the Natural
History. Taken together, they do not amount to a discipline of "economics," but, Saller
argues they do provide insights into Pliny's views about different forms of production
and commerce, about labor and agency, about price formation and profitability, about
investment and consumption and about technology. Combined with archaeological and
other evidence, Pliny's work can also provide us with one of our best textual pictures
of the working of the Roman economy"
Sujet(s) : Pline l'Ancien (0023-0079). Histoire naturelle
Conditions économiques -- Rome -- 30 av. J.-C.-284 -- Dans la littérature -- 1er siècle
Économie politique -- Rome -- Dans la littérature -- 1er siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691229546. - ISBN 0691229546. - ISBN 9780691229553 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47008130k
Notice n° :
FRBNF47008130
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
