Capital in Classical Antiquity

Chapter 1 Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity

Chapter 2 Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece

Chapter 3 Inequality in the Peloponnesian War

Chapter 4 Framing Capital: Xenophon’s Economic Model and Social System

Chapter 5 Piketty’s Dilemma: Taxes in Fourth-Century Athens

Chapter 6 Status as a Brake and Accelerant on Wealth Inequality in the Late Roman Republic

Chapter 7 Rent Control Measures in the 40s BCE: Housing Costs, Public Intervention and Inequality in the Roman World

Chapter 8 Capital in the Roman Empire: The Scope for Pikettian Dynamics in an Ancient Agrarian Economy

Chapter 9 Money, Capital and Inequality in the Age of Augustus

Chapter 10 Was r Greater Than g? Evidence from Roman Egypt

Chapter 11 Wealth, Inequality and Political Culture in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor, First to Third Centuries CE

Chapter 12 Oligarchy Ancient and Modern

Chapter 14 Reflection: Piketty Among the Ancients—Capital and Beyond

Chapter 15 Afterword: Capital, from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century