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The stakes of cliometrics in ancient history
Das Infragestellen von Kliometrie in der Alten Geschichte
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Abstract "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 grav... mehr
"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)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Methode; ökonomische Theorie; Marktwirtschaft; Antike; Römisches Reich; Wirtschaft; Wirtschaftsforschung; Griechenland; quantitative Methode; Messung; Forschungsansatz; Forschungsstand
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und "Schulen", Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Methode
Grundlagenforschung; historisch; Methodenentwicklung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Seitenangabe
S. 350-361
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.3.350-361
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)