The political economy of classical Athens : a naval perspective / by Barry O'Halloran.
| Author/creator | O'Halloran, Barry author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
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| Series | Mnemosyne supplements, history and archaeology of classical antiquity, 2352-8656 ; Volume 425 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 425. ^A492133 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity. ^A1128320 |
| Contents | Intro; Contents; Preface; Figures, Tables and Graphs; Figures; Tables; Graph; Introduction; Chapter 1. Primitive Positions-the Oikos Debate; 1. The Defining Quartet-Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley; 2. The Ancient Economy Post-Finley; Chapter 2. New Perspectives; 1. Institutions-the Engines of History; 2. Materialist Man and His Motivations; 3. The Only Constant is Change; 4. Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation; 5. The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences; Chapter 3. Warfare States; 1. Path Dependence |
| Contents | 2. The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis3. The Spartan Naval Mirage; Chapter 4. War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes; 1. The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy; 2. Emerging Patterns of War; 3. Strategy; 4. Early Athenian Expansionism; 5. The Transition to Triremes; 6. Private to Polis Navies; Chapter 5. The Late Archaic Transition-the Naval Evidence; 1. Athens' 'Turn to the Sea'; 2. Casus Belli; 3. The Athenian Naval Revolution; 4. Themistocles' Naval Expansion; Chapter 6. Money, Markets and Naval Procurement |
| Contents | 1. Coinage, Silver and Money Supply2. Trireme Costs and Lifespan; 3. Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement; 4. Provisioning the Fleet-a Network of Markets; Chapter 7. Naval Institutions-Trierarchy; 1. The Rules of the Game; 2. Liturgy-Delivering Public Goods; 3. Trierarchy-Delivering the Fleet; 4. Trierarchy in Theory and Practice; 5. Trierarchy-Institutional Evolution; 6. Cleruchy-Further Institutional Adaptation; Chapter 8. Naval Innovation; 1. The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy; 2. Naval Technological Innovation-the Ram; 3. Greek Innovation in Nautical Design |
| Contents | Chapter 9. Naval Defence Infrastructure1. Shipsheds; 2. The Athenian Circuit Walls; 3. The Piraeus; 4. The Long Walls; 5. Estimating the Costs; Chapter 10. Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens; 1. Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence; 2. Schools of Democracy; 3. Athenian Trireme Crews; 4. Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves; 5. The Trireme School of Democracy; Chapter 11. The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy; 1. Economic Growth; 2. Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets; 3. The Athenian Labour Market; 4. The Naval Economy; 5. Size Matters; Chapter 12. The Wealth of Naval Athens |
| Contents | 1. The Versatile Trireme2. Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments; 3. The Business of Empire; 4. Costs of War; 5. Ancient Athenian Keynesians; Conclusions; Appendix: Sources; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary | Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O'Halloran seeks to contribute to this renewed debate by re-interrogating the ancient evidence using more recent economic interpretative frameworks. 0The aim is to re-evaluate accepted orthodoxies and present the economic history of this emblematic city-state in a new light. More specifically, it analyses the economic foundations of Athens through the prism of its navy. Its macroeconomic approach utilises an employment-demand model through which enormous naval defence expenditures created an exceptional period of demand-led economic growth. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: O'Halloran, Barry, author. Political economy of classical Athens Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004386143 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018061533 |
| ISBN | 9789004386150 ((e-book)) |
| ISBN | 9004386157 |
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