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Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World

Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World

Hardcover

Series: Impact of Empire, Book 44

Ancient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004525122
ISBN13: 9789004525122
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 18 2022
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book offers critical analyses of the dynamic relation between legal regulations, institutions and economic performance in the Roman world. It studies how law and legal thought affected economic development, and vice versa. Inspired by New Institutional Economics scholars the past decades used ancient law to explain economic growth. There was, however, no natural selection process directing legal changes towards macro-economic efficiency. Ancient rulers and jurists modified institutions to serve or safeguard particular interests--political, social, or economic. Nevertheless both economic performance and legal scholarship peaked at unprecedented levels. These were momentous historical developments. How were they related?

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