Cohen Athenian Economy and Society

A Banking Perspective
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2077-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Ch. 1 Market Economy - Banking Reality 3

The Athenian Economy 3

The Trapeza as True Bank 8

Currency Exchange 18

False Anachronism: The Modern Invention of the Athenian Pawnshop 22

Ch. 2 A Methodological Alternative to the Misuse of Statistics 26

The Perils of Cliometrics 27

"Forensic Attestation": An Alternative Approach 36

Ch. 3 Financial Context and Concepts 41

Freedom from Regulation and Oligopoly 42

In Lieu of Interest: "Maritime" and "Landed" Yields 44

Ch. 4 Wives, Slaves, and the Athenian Banker 61

A "Strictly Personal" Business 62

Assets, Human and Other 66

Unavailable and Undesirable: Free Citizens as Bank Employees 70

Slaves and Wives 73

The Banking Household: A Traditional Form Transformed 82

Adaptation to Slave Enterprise 90

Women, Law, and Property 101

Ch. 5 Banking Operations: "Risk-Laden Revenues from 'Other People's Money'" 111

Obtaining "Other People's Money" 114

Deploying Other People's Money for Maritime Loans 121

Maritime Finance 136

Denial of the Role of Bankers in Sea Finance 160

The Bankers' Own Money 183

Ch. 6 The Banks' Role in the Economy 190

The "Invisible Economy" 191

The Structure of Credit 207

Bank Failures and Economic History 215

Works Cited 225

Index of Passages Cited 255

General Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Edward E. Cohen is Chairman of the Executive Committee at JeffBanks, Inc., a bank-holding company based in Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University and is author of Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts (Princeton).