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TRADE AND INDUSTRY; D. J. Mattingly, J. Salmon (edd.): Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World. Pp. xii + 324, figs. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Cased, £50. ISBN: 0-415-21253-7

The Classical Review, 2002, Vol.52 (1), p.97 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2002 The Classical Association ;ISSN: 0009-840X ;EISSN: 1464-3561

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    TRADE AND INDUSTRY; D. J. Mattingly, J. Salmon (edd.): Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World. Pp. xii + 324, figs. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Cased, £50. ISBN: 0-415-21253-7
  • Author: Bang, Peter Fibiger
  • Subjects: Business
  • Is Part Of: The Classical Review, 2002, Vol.52 (1), p.97
  • Description: From the economic point of view the essential features of the port of trade (by contrast to such non-Polanyian concepts as the gateway community) are that it lies on the boundary between two dierent economic systems and is a device of administered trade, in which long-distance trade and local exchange are kept separate, so that the market place operates only for local goods, and access to the goods from the hinterland is controlled by a political power and not by market forces. [...]to accept that at Naukratis Egyptian grain, linen, etc. were acquired in conditions where price was determined by political considerations rather than by supply and demand says nothing at all about the conditions that applied elsewhere in the Mediterranean (at p. 42 M. seems to see that she needs to have ports of trade everywhere, but sensibly retreats from claiming that). [...]the focus is on exploring historical and geographical variations within Greco-Roman civilization in qualitative and quantitative terms. [...]we learn, perhaps surprisingly, that the Roman imperial quarrying of stone under extreme conditions in the eastern Egyptian desert depended much more on the availability of such larger organizational powers than on pure imperial spending capacity. [...]Colin Adams estimates the price of producing the twelve grey granite columns standing in the Pantheon portico and bringing them from the quarry at Mons Claudianus to the Nile at around HS 300,000 (p. 187).
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0009-840X
    EISSN: 1464-3561
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
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