This updated edition of a text first published in 1985 explores the economic history of classical antiquity. It highlights the depth of the transformation from the ancient consumer economy based on slave and serf labour to the modern capitalist, investment, production and profit economy.
| ISBN: | 9780520219465 |
| Publication date: | 19th March 1999 |
| Author: | M I Finley |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 262 pages |
| Genres: |
Economic history |