The Ancient Greek Economy. Markets, Households and City-States
66 3 FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS Trade Policy in Classical Athens Mark Woolmer Economists have long recognized that one of the ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 67 agreement), social costs (external costs to society arising from a particular transaction), and ...
68 MARK wOOLMER consider these new measures to be short-term initiatives designed to over- come specific problems. In contrast, ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 69 part of the Sidonian ‘political class’ from the financial obligations normally imposed on forei ...
70 MARK wOOLMER buildings, the rope used to bring the men from the agora to the Pnyx for the assembly, and the hulls of triremes ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 71 of Antalcidas in 386 BCE.^20 It is impossible to determine how much revenue was generated by th ...
72 MARK wOOLMER on the quantity of transactions being conducted in their markets. With regard to commercial taxes and duties, th ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 73 purchase a return cargo before heading home; if Xenophon’s assessment is correct, and there is ...
74 MARK wOOLMER thirty-two inscriptions honoring men for their commercial services during the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, it ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 75 of pirates would require enormous military effort and huge public expense if it were to be succ ...
76 MARK wOOLMER and not you (the demos), are responsible for mishaps which occur during a voy- age’ (Dem. 58.53–54). In order to ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 77 states (e.g., the agreement made between Oianthea and Chaleion, Tod, GHI I, no. 34) – were exem ...
78 MARK wOOLMER pro- meaning ‘on behalf of ’ or ‘instead of ’ and the word xenos translated as ‘guest-friend’ or sometimes more ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 79 Marek concluded that the bestowal of proxenia was not motivated by com- mercial interests and t ...
80 MARK wOOLMER of political or military services: it is not until an unknown point between 410 and 336 BCE that the Athenians b ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 81 to relocate their businesses to Athens, something that would have been partic- ularly appreciat ...
82 MARK wOOLMER trade partners in order to protect the interests of their respective mercantile communities. In tandem with this ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 83 wrong was done to any merchant. However, the defining aspect of these cases was the speed and f ...
84 MARK wOOLMER that sellers used the correct weights and measures, there were ten metronomoi or ‘Controllers of Measures.’^78 T ...
FORGING LINKS BETwEEN REGIONS 85 also lowered transaction costs by providing experts who could quickly and reliably ascertain wh ...
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