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Cover 1 Contents 6 Preface 8 Introduction 12 1. Proxies for Economic Performance in the Roman Empire 19 An Excursus from Morgantina: An Archaeologist’s Assessment of the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) by Kevin Ennis 36 2. Pliny’s Purpose, Audience, and Method 43 Excursus: Pliny on Remedies for Rabies 55 3. Parens Natura and Smithian Growth 59 4. Innovation and Economic Growth in the Natural History 71 Excursus: Aulus Gellius on Pliny and the Culture of Authoritative Knowledge 90 5. Pliny’s Economic Observations and Reasoning 95 6. “Utility” and the Afterlife of the Natural History 125 Excursus: Fulling as an Illustration Comparing Pliny’s Natural History and Chambers’s Cyclopaedia 139 Conclusion 144 Latin Texts 150 Notes 160 Bibliography 188 Index 202

Author

Richard P. Saller

Language

EN