JG Manning - Classics Department, Stanford University
| 120603 | Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt |
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Abstract - In this paper I survey the use of money in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on the introduction of coinage by the Ptolemies. I draw connections between monetization of the economy with other institutional reforms, especially as they concern the legal reforms of Ptolemy II. The paper will appear in a volume on money edited by William Harris. (This is revision 1.3 replacing 040602 entry.) |
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| 050604 | The Ptolemaic economy, institutions, economic integration, and the limits of centralized political power |
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Abstract - In this paper I discuss the relationship between the Ptolemaic state and economic development. My approach is informed by New Institutional Economics (NIE) and also by insights offered by Economic Sociology. I argue that the incentive structures that the Ptolemies established probably did not allow sustainable, or aggregate, economic growth despite important new fiscal institutions, some capital investment in new agricultural areas, and the possibility of new technology. I begin with a discussion of institutions and the Ptolemaic state, and move on to discuss, briefly, developments and the structure of the economy, before ending with an examination of the land tenure regime and how it relates to performance. (This revised paper replaces Version 1.0 posted in April 2005.) |
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| 040602 | Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt |
| JG Manning, Stanford University | |
| This paper has been revised. Please see the 120603 entry. | |
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| 030603 | Texts, contexts, subtexts and interpretative frameworks. Beyond the parochial and toward (dynamic) modeling of the Ptolemaic state and the Ptolemaic economy |
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Abstract - My concern in this paper is the historical interpretation of the Greek and demotic documentary papyri of the Ptolemaic period, the role of Archaeology in the context of Ptolemaic economic history, and the application of social science theory towards an understanding of Ptolemaic Egypt. |
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| 100501 | Egyptian grain transport |
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Abstract - I review here a recent publication of a papyrus document dating to the Ramesside period concerning the transportation of grain. |
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| 050501 | Land tenure, rural space, and the political economy of Ptolemaic Egypt (332 BC-30 BC) |
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Abstract - In this paper I argue that statist (or “despotic”) assumptions of royal power does not adequately describe the nature of political power in the Ptolemaic development of Egypt. I examine the process of Ptolemaic state formation from the point of view of the expansion and the settlement of the Fayyum, the foundation of Ptolemais in the Thebaid, and from the point of view of new fiscal institutions. |
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| 040501 | The Ptolemaic economy, institutions, economic integration, and the limits of centralized political power |
| JG Manning, Stanford University | |
| Revised May 2006. See entry 050604. | |
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