The Financial Markets of Roman Egypt: Risk and Return

by Paul V. Kelly

The Financial Markets of Roman Egypt analyses some 4,367 financial transactions, leases, sales and loans, recorded on papyri in Roman Egypt in the period AD 1 to 350. The analysis of this remarkable body of information, the ancient equivalent of modern-day 'Big Data', helps us understand how ordinary people thought about some of the most important decisions they would make in their life: buying a house, lending their savings or renting land...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078339
• ISBN13: 9781802078336
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"