Economic Growth and Towns in Classical Antiquity*

Hopkins, Keith

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“…The slave economy coincides with the great expansion of trade, coinage, and other indicators of economic growth after 200 BC, with a leveling-off during the first century BC, and with economic contraction after 200AD (Hopkins 1980). The slave economy coincides with the great expansion of trade, coinage, and other indicators of economic growth after 200 BC, with a leveling-off during the first century BC, and with economic contraction after 200AD (Hopkins 1980).…”

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“…The slave economy coincides with the great expansion of trade, coinage, and other indicators of economic growth after 200 BC, with a leveling-off during the first century BC, and with economic contraction after 200AD (Hopkins 1980). The economy limped along for a while, supported by government extraction of taxes from the richer provinces, to pay for the armies stationed on the frontiers (Hopkins 1977). At this time Rome already was undergoing the structural change that constituted the downfall of its mode of production.…”

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Market Dynamics as the Engine of Historical Change

Collins¹

1990

Sociological Theory

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Section: The Crisis Of the Slave Economymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The slave economy coincides with the great expansion of trade, coinage, and other indicators of economic growth after 200 BC, with a leveling-off during the first century BC, and with economic contraction after 200AD (Hopkins 1980). The economy limped along for a while, supported by government extraction of taxes from the richer provinces, to pay for the armies stationed on the frontiers (Hopkins 1977). At this time Rome already was undergoing the structural change that constituted the downfall of its mode of production.…”

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Market Dynamics as the Engine of Historical Change

Collins¹

1990

Sociological Theory

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“…Of the Roman Empire, [Hopkins (1978), p. 77] noted, "Huge pre-industrial empires accumulate huge resources; they spend a large part of that accumulated surplus on self-preservation, not on economic growth." The implication is clear: the behaviors and institutions that produce economic growth and urban agglomeration economies in modern cities were for the most part absent from the political cities of the ancient world, and these cities require very different models of growth.…”

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Cities Through the Ages: One Thing or Many?

Smith

Lobo

2019

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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The variability among cities, from the ancient world to the present, can be organized usefully in two ways. First, a focus on the dominant urban activities and processes leads to the recognition of two basic urban types: economic cities and political cities. Most cities today are economic cities in which growth proceeds through agglomeration processes. By contrast, most cities in the ancient world (and some today) are political cities, in which power and administration play a major role in structuring cities and generating change. Second, an alternative focus on processes of social interaction within the urban built environment leads to the recognition that there is only one kind of settlement that includes all cities-economic and political; past and present. Cities in this sense are settings for "energized crowding." Processes of interaction generate both economic and political growth, and they produce and influence the built forms and social characteristics of all cities. Our model helps scholars distinguish the unique from the universal traits of cities today and in the past.

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“…Others have attempted to stress the archaeological evidence for nonagricultural production at certain sites (Mattingly et ah, 2000;Wilson, 2000). Yet the picture of Roman trade now known from archaeology will no longer sustain such a view; the Roman city must be seen as participating simultaneously in networks of local, regional and long-distance exchange (Hopkins, 1978;Fulford, 1987;Harris, 1993;Horden and Purcell, 2000: 105-22). Furthermore, it assumes that a city and its local hinterland form a single cellular unit of analysis; the role of long-distance trade is assumed to be minimal either in supplying cities from further afield, or in providing extended markets for their own products or those of their agricultural hinterlands.…”

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Urban Production in the Roman World: the View from North Africa

Wilson¹

2002

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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LA PRODUZIONE CITTADINA NEL MONDO ROMANO, VISTA DAL NORD AFRICAQuesto articolo esamina l'evidenza per le attivita industriali nelle città del nord Africa romano e dimostra come l'importanza della produzione artigianale urbana sia stata largamente sottovalutata in molte discussioni di economia antica. Di solito è difficile stabilire la giusta scala delle attività produttive urbane senza effettuare degli scavi estensivi, visto che i laboratori erano molto spesso piuttosto piccoli; ciò non toglie che essi potrebbero essere stati comunque numerosi e distribuiti all'interno della città. Scavi della estensione necessaria non sono irrealizzabili con le tecniche odierne; due siti scavati nella prima metà del ventesimo secolo hanno infatti portato alia luce un quadro caratterizzato da numerosi laboratori: 22 fulloniche a Timgad e 18 stabilimenti per la salatura del pesce a Sabratha. La ricognizione di superficie viene qui indicata come il metodo migliore per effettuare ricerche nei siti che lo consentono, al fine di identificare l'ampiezza dei depositi di rifiuti di fabbricazione, con l'aiuto di indagini geofisiche per trovare forni e fornaci, e scavi di alcune aree specifiche. Questo tipo di tecniche è stato sperimentato con successo a Leptiminus, Meninx e Thamusida, e ha permesso di identificare la presenza di attività di produzione ceramica, lavoro dei metalli e dell'industria per l'estrazione della porpora per la tintura. L'evidenza che emerge dalle recenti indagini archeologiche suggerisce che il contributo dell'industria cittadina all'economia delle città antiche fosse potenzialmente significativo, mentre la scala di produzione nei siti discussi indica un carattere artigianale della vita di queste città molto più consistente di quanto non sia stato di solito ritenuto. Il modello della ‘città di consumo’ non sembra adattarsi completamente a molte delle città romane, e i tentativi di descrizione dell'economia dell'urbanismo romano dovrebbero prestare piu attenzione al ruolo delle città nelle reti di commercio locale, regionale e su lunga distanza.

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Economic Growth and Towns in Classical Antiquity*

Cited by 11 publications

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Market Dynamics as the Engine of Historical Change

Market Dynamics as the Engine of Historical Change

Cities Through the Ages: One Thing or Many?

Urban Production in the Roman World: the View from North Africa

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