Lecture Notes: https://github.com/braddelong/long-form-drafts/blob/master/lecture-notes-introduction-to-economic-history-ancient.ipynb
Moses Finley (1965): Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World https://delong.typepad.com/finley-technical.pdf
Moses Finley: The World of Odysseus https://delong.typepad.com/worldofodysseusexcerpts2.pdf: Excerpts: Wealth and Labor; Household, Kin, and Community
Moses Finley: The Ancient Economy https://delong.typepad.com/files/finleyancientexcerpts.pdf: Excerpts: Landlords and Peasants; Town and Country
Peter Temin: The Roman Market Economy https://delong.typepad.com/files/temin2013exerpts.pdf: Excerpts: The Grain Trade; The Labor Market; Financial Intermediation; Economic Growth
Willem M. Jongman, Jan P.A.M. Jacobs, and Geertje M. Klein Goldewijk: Health and Wealth in the Roman Empire https://delong.typepad.com/rome.pdf
Willem Jongman: Gibbon Was Right: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire https://delong.typepad.com/jongman-gibbon-was-right.pdf
Peter Temin: The Roman Market Economy https://delong.typepad.com/files/temin2013percapitagdp.pdf: Per Capita GDP in the Early Roman Empire
In Malthusian Economies: Jared Diamond: The Invention of Agriculture: The Worst Mistake In the History of the Human Race http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/09/the_malthusian_.html
- The Fall of the Roman Republic https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/the-fall.html
- Notes on: Polanyi: Aristotle Discovers the Economy https://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/notes-polanyi-aristotle-discovers-the-economy-hoisted-from-the-archives.html https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0GwzWFlWB8EGxTiETO8L6-OkA
- Reading List for an Ungiven Course: The "Classical" Mediterranean Economy https://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/reading-list-for-an-ungiven-course-the-classical-mediterranean-economy.html
- Falls of Rome https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/falls-of-rome.html
Additional Readings
Alasdair Macintyre: Musings on the utility function of an ancient Greek: https://delong.typepad.com/files/utilityfunctionofagreek.pdf
Will Baumol: Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive https://delong.typepad.com/files/baumol-entrepreneurship.pdf
Moses Finley: The World of Odysseus https://delong.typepad.com/finleyodysseus.pdf
Moses Finley: The Ancient Economy https://delong.typepad.com/files/finleythe-ancient-economy.pdf
John A. Hall: Powers and Liberties
Karl Polanyi: Aristotle Discovers the Economy https://delong.typepad.com/aristotlediscovers.pdf
Karl Polanyi: The Economy as Instituted Process https://delong.typepad.com/polanyiinstituted-process.pdf
Alasdair Macintyre: After Virtue https://delong.typepad.com/files/aftervirtue.pdf
Peter Temin: The Roman Market Economy https://delong.typepad.com/temin2013.pdf