Power and Public Finance at Rome, 264-49 Bce

ISBN-13: 9780190639570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

James Tan

Opis

In the first study of fiscal sociology in the Roman Republic, James Tan argues that much of Roman politics was defined by changes in the fiscal system. Tan offers a new conception of the Roman Republic by showing that imperial profits freed the elite from dependence on citizen taxes.

Recenzje

A blockbuster of a book, Power and Public Finance at Rome, 264-49 BCE is bound to unsettle everything we thought we knew about the economics of Republican imperialism. Tan zeros in on the crucial questions: Who has the money? Who doesn't? Why? And what are the implications? In answering them, he opens a strikingly new perspective on the decisions that determined who benefited from the profits of empire.

O autorze

James Tan studied ancient history at The University of Sydney and at Columbia University, and works mainly in the fields of Roman political and economic history. He was Visiting Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady NY, and is now Assistant Professor of History and Classics at Hofstra University in Hempstead NY.