Making Money in Ancient Athens

by Michael Leese

Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to approach their economic affairs in a rational manner like modern individuals? Since the nineteenth century, many scholars have argued that premodern people did not behave like modern businesspeople, and that the "stagnation" that characterized the economy prior to the Industrial Revolution can be explained by a prevailing noneconomic mentality throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472132768
• ISBN13: 9780472132768
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 6.3"