Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy

by Dennis P. Kehoe

The economy of the Roman Empire was dominated by the business of agriculture. It employed the vast majority of the Empire's labor force and provided the wealth on which the upper classes depended for their social privileges. Consequently, the way in which upper-class Romans maintained and profited from their agricultural investments played a crucial role in shaping the basic relationships characterizing the Roman economy. In Investment, Profit, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108026
• ISBN13: 9780472108022
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"