The political economy of classical Athens : a naval perspective / by Barry O'Halloran.

Author/creator O'Halloran, Barry author.
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PublicationLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
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SeriesMnemosyne 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: O'Halloran, Barry, author. Political economy of classical Athens Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004386143
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