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The stakes of cliometrics in ancient history

"According to Finley, markets and economic motivations played little, if any, role in ancient economies. Status and civic ideology governed the allocation of scarce resources. Hence, the application of economic theory to the ancient economy was at best a futile exercise and at worst a source of grave misunderstandings. Temin's contributions lead to other conclusions and, as in the myth of Sisyphus, the boulder seems again to be at the bottom of the hill! The author's feeling is that the Gordian knot remains the same now as over the past decades: should cliometrics be used in the social sciences/humanities in general, and ancient history especially?" (author's abstract)

The stakes of cliometrics in ancient history

Urheber*in: Diebolt, Claude

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Alternative title
Das Infragestellen von Kliometrie in der Alten Geschichte
ISSN
0172-6404
Extent
Seite(n): 350-361
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Historical Social Research, 36(3)

Subject
Geschichte
Wirtschaft
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Methode
ökonomische Theorie
Marktwirtschaft
Antike
Römisches Reich
Wirtschaft
Wirtschaftsforschung
Griechenland
quantitative Methode
Messung
Forschungsansatz
Forschungsstand
Grundlagenforschung
historisch
Methodenentwicklung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Diebolt, Claude
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2011

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-357642
Rights
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  • Diebolt, Claude

Time of origin

  • 2011

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