作者：University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
作者：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The papyri of Roman Egypt provide some of the most important quantifiable data from a first-millennium economy. This paper builds a new dataset of wheat prices, land prices, rents, and wages over the entire period of Roman control in Egypt. Movements in both nominal and real prices over these centuries suggest periods of intensive and extensive economic growth as well as contraction. Across a timeframe that covers several severe mortality shocks, demographic changes appear to be an important, ...
作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of California System; University of California Irvine
作者：Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
