Capital in Classical Antiquity

Max Koedijk has recently completed his PhD at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, focusing on the exchange of property in the late Roman Republic. His research interests include real estate markets, incentive- and information-structures, and evolutionary models, especially relating to status-seeking behaviour. Neville Morley is Professor of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. His research ranges from the economic and social history of classical antiquity, including urbanisation, slavery, trade and agriculture, to the modern reception of the ancient world in the social sciences, especially the influence of the Greek historian Thucydides in historiography and political thought.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity (Max Koedijk and Neville Morley).- Chapter 2. Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece (Michael Leese).- Chapter 3. Inequality in the Peloponnesian War (Manu Dal Bo Manu Dal Borgo).- Chapter 4. Framing Capital: Xenophon’s Economic Model and Social System (Sven Günther).- Chapter 5. Piketty’s Dilemma: Taxation in Fourth Century Athens (Dorothea Rohde).- Chapter 6. Status as a Brake and Accelerant on Wealth Inequality in the Late Roman Republic (Max Koedijk).- Chapter 7. Rent Controls in the 40s BCE: housing costs, public intervention and inequality in the Roman World (Cristina Rosillo-López).- Chapter 8. Capital in the Roman Empire: the scope for Pikettian dynamics in an ancient agrarian economy (Myles Lavan and John Weisweiler).- Chapter 9. Money, Capital and Inequality in the Age of Augustus (Colin Elliott^ g? Evidence from Roman Egypt (Paul Kelly).- Chapter 11. Wealth, Inequality and Political Culture in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor, 1st to 3rd Centuries CE (Arjan Zuiderhoek).- Chapter 12. Oligarchy Ancient and Modern (David Singh Grewal).- Chapter 13. Beyond Capital (Kim Bowes).- Chapter 14. Piketty Among the Ancients: Capital and Beyond (Walter Scheidel).- Chapter 15. Afterword: Capital from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Thomas Piketty).