Trading Communities in the Roman World
A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective
Biographical note
Taco Terpstra, Ph.D. (2011), Columbia University, specializes in Roman socio-economic history and classical archaeology. He has published articles on Roman long-distance trade and editions of Egyptian papyri, as well as articles resulting from his field work in ancient Stabiae.
Readership
All interested in Roman long-distance trade, Roman law, ethnicity in the Roman world, and the archeology of Rome and Ostia, as well as economists interested in pre-industrial economic history.
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