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Project

Mercatura quaestuosa. Trade and transport in the Roman empire. A structural analysis

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01P00510

Duration

01 October 2010 → 01 October 2012

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Koenraad Verboven

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Ancient history
- Socio-economic history

Keywords

comparative history agency Roman trade merchants economic history financing Antiquity History

Project description

This project aims for a structural and comparative study of Roman trade, trying to pinpoint which features are essentially Roman and which are shared with other pre-industrial societies. By confronting the organization of Roman trade with pre-industrial parallels, we show that many commercial strategies to enhance efficiency (agency, financing, risk sharing etc.), were already in practice during the Roman empire.

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