Quantifying the roman economy: methods and problems

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1. Introduction. Quantifying the Roman economy: integration, growth, decline? I. URBANIZATION 2. Urbanization as a proxy of demographic and economic growth 3. Response to Elio Lo Cascio II. FIELD SURVEY AND DEMOGRAPHY 4. Archaeology, demography, and Roman economic growth 5. Peopling the countryside: Roman demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba 6. Peopling ancient landscapes: potential and problems III. AGRICULTURE 7. Quantifying Egyptian agriculture 8. Response to Alan Bowman IV. TRADE 9. Approaches to quantifying Roman trade 10. Approaches to quantifying Roman trade: response 11. A comment on Andrew Wilson: 'Approaches to quantifying Roman trade' V. COINAGE 12. Coinage and metal supply 13. Roman silver coinage: mints, metallurgy, and production 14. Some numismatic approaches to quantifying the Roman economy VI. PRICES, EARNINGS AND STANDARDS OF LIVING 15. Earnings and costs: living standards and the Roman economy 16. How prosperous were the Romans? 17. New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy