Exploring the economy of late antiquity : selected essays / Jairus Banaji.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Mass production, monetary economy and the commercial vitality of the Mediterranean; Part I Mapping the late antique economy; Part II Monetary circulation (rules, rhythms); Part III Aristocracies and estates; Part IV Beyond the Mediterranean and late antiquity; Select bibliography; Index; The Roman economy; Minimalism; The strength of private interests; Economic cycles, institutional continuities; Summary of select themes; Chapter 2 Mickwitz's modernism.

Chapter 3 State and aristocracy in the economic evolution of the late empireChapter 4 The economic trajectories of late antiquity; Chapter 5 Discounts, weight standards and the exchange rate between gold and copper; Chapter 6 Precious metal coinages and monetary expansion in late antiquity; Chapter 7 Aristocracies, peasantries and the framing of the early Middle Ages; Chapter 8 Late antique aristocracies; Chapter 9 Late antique legacies and Muslim economic expansion; Chapter 10 'Regions that look seaward'; Introduction; The late empire; The eastern Mediterranean; Aftermaths.

Reinstating metrology: the 'minus carats' systemDiscounts; Gold versus copper; Monetary expansion in the fourth to seventh centuries; The solidus vs the drachm?; Introduction; Aristocracies; The agrarian watershed of the seventh century; Critique of Wickham; The east: vulnerability; Three sectors of the aristocracy; Struggles within the ruling class; The naxarars and dynatoi; Epilogue: the biological fragility of a class.

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

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