Alan Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford.Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Universiy of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction. Quantifying the Roman economy: integration, growth, decline? ; I. URBANIZATION ; 2. Urbanization as a proxy of demographic and economic growth ; 3. Response to Elio Lo Cascio ; II. FIELD SURVEY AND DEMOGRAPHY ; 4. Archaeology, demography, and Roman economic growth ; 5. Peopling the countryside: Roman demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba ; 6. Peopling ancient landscapes: potential and problems ; III. AGRICULTURE ; 7. Quantifying Egyptian agriculture ; 8. Response to Alan Bowman ; IV. TRADE ; 9. Approaches to quantifying Roman trade ; 10. Approaches to quantifying Roman trade: response ; 11. A comment on Andrew Wilson: 'Approaches to quantifying Roman trade' ; V. COINAGE ; 12. Coinage and metal supply ; 13. Roman silver coinage: mints, metallurgy, and production ; 14. Some numismatic approaches to quantifying the Roman economy ; VI. PRICES, EARNINGS AND STANDARDS OF LIVING ; 15. Earnings and costs: living standards and the Roman economy ; 16. How prosperous were the Romans? ; 17. New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy

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