Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World

The research program we propose asks three broad questions to inquire what drove economic development and how this in turn affected society: •How did humanly 'devised' institutions determine the growth or decline of the Roman economy ? How resilient was this institutional frame to stochastic shocks ? •Did the institutional framework change significantly in response to economic developments? •What was the role of ecological factors as geography, climate, or disease pools? Did nature-culture interactions sustain regional trajectories in the long term?

Keywords:SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY

Disciplines:History

Project type:Collaboration project