Название: Making Money in Ancient Athens
Автор: Michael Leese
Издательство: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132768
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 278
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 premodern (and nonwestern) societies.