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Reading List for: The "Classical" Mediterranean Economy

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It looks to me as though I should admit (to myself at least) that I am unlikely to ever teach my course the "classical" Mediterranean economy. Thus it is time for me to move it to the Assignment Desk--things that I really wish other people work on.

Here is the skeleton of the reading list: things that I think must be on it.

They all, of course, require ancillary follow-on pieces developing, applying, and critiquing each of the principal authors' arguments. In addition, many of them are sufficiently difficult and demanding that they require a preparatory warm-up reading or two as well. All of those are absent:

  • Jared Diamond (1987): The Invention of Agriculture: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/09/the_malthusian_.html

  • Rick Steckel (2008): Biological Measures of the Standard of Living http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.22.1.129

  • Moses Finley (1954): The World of Odysseus http://delong.typepad.com/finleyodysseus.pdf http://amzn.to/2rQxFhI

  • Moses Finley (1965): Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World http://www.jstor.org/stable/2591872

  • William Baumol (1990): Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive http://delong.typepad.com/baumol-1990-entrepreneurship.pdf

  • Aldo Schiavone (2002): The End of the Past http://amzn.to/2rzcJfI

  • Moses Finley (1973): The Ancient Economy http://delong.typepad.com/files/finleythe-ancient-economy.pdf http://amzn.to/2ryMiqj

  • Peter Temin (2013): The Roman Market Economy http://delong.typepad.com/temin2013.pdf http://amzn.to/2rz7E6Y

  • Paul Seabright (2010): The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life http://amzn.to/2tp56K6

  • H.N. Turteltaub (2001): Over the Wine-Dark Sea http://amzn.to/2rzelGs

  • James Davidson (1998) Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens http://amzn.to/2sSzn6F

  • Aristotle (350 BC): The Necessity of Slavery http://delong.typepad.com/egregious_moderation/2009/04/aristotle-on-the-necessity-of-slavery.html

  • Karl Polanyi (1957): Aristotle Discovers the Economy http://delong.typepad.com/polanyi-aristotle.pdf

  • Karl Polanyi (1957): The Economy as Instituted Process http://delong.typepad.com/polanyiinstituted-process.pdf

  • Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006): The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization http://amzn.to/2to4Wma

  • Erich Auerbach (1953): Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature http://amzn.to/2sSpHZH, chs. 1-6

  • Perry Anderson (1974) Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism http://amzn.to/2sLyyMD


And a very few scattered notes:

  • Notes: Polanyi: Aristotle Discovers the Economy http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/notes-polanyi-aristotle-discovers-the-economy-hoisted-from-the-archives.html

  • Notes for "Aristotle and Finley": Making Sense of Slow Pre-Industrial Technological Advance http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/01/notes-for-aristotle-and-finley-making-sense-of-slow-pre-industrial-technological-advance.html

    • Aristotle and Finley (key) https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0ZlslVp11hMCkX7-KbOniyOiA
  • Thinking About Aristotle of Stagira and Moses Finley http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/01/hoisted-from-the-archives-thinking-about-aristotle-of-stagira-and-moses-finley.html


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