Roman Law and Economics: Volume II: Exchange, Ownership, and Disputes

2020 OUP hardcover edition. Bend and creasing to covers, crack to binding between front cover and text but a usable reference copy. From the cover: Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal systems, but its genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. By exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1,000 years. Contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due reference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other. Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among other topics. Contents: 1. Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law I by Geoffrey Parsons Miller I. INSTITUTIONS 2. What Can the Endogenous Institutions Literature Tell Us About Ancient Rome? by Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen, and Dennis P. Kehoe 3. The Constitution of the Roman Republic by Eric A. Posner 4. Law-Making and Economic Change during the Republic and Early Empire by Luuk de Ligt II. MARKETS AND TRADE 5. Setting the Rules of the Game: The Market and Its Working in the Roman Empire by Elio Lo Cascio 6. Statistics in Ancient History: Prices and Trade in the Pax Romana by Peter Temin 7. The Organization of India-to-Rome Trade: Loans and Agents in the Muziris Papyrus by Ron Harris III. ORGANIZING BUSINESS 8. Incomplete Organizations: Legal Entities and Asset Partitioning in Roman Commerce by Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman, and Richard Squire 9. Roman Business Associations by Andreas Martin Fleckner 10. Agency Problems and Organizational Costs in Slave-Run Businesses by Barbara Abatino and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci 11. Mandate and the Management of Business in the Roman Empire by Dennis P. Kehoe Index VOLUME II List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors List of Abbreviations 12. Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law II by Geoffrey Parsons Miller IV. SLAVERY AND THE ROMAN ECONOMY 13. Law, Slaves, and Markets in the Roman Imperial System by Aldo Schiavone 14. The Practice of Manumission through Negotiated Conditions in Imperial Rome by Egbert Koops V. CREDIT 15. Banking, Money-Lending, and Elite Financial Life in Rome by Jean Andreau 16. Secured Transactions in Classical Roman Law by Hendrik L. E. Verhagen VI. PROPERTY 17. Ancient Rome: Legal Foundations of the Growth of an Indispensable City by Robert C. Ellickson 18. Land Demarcation in Ancient Rome by Gary D. Libecap and Dean Lueck 19. The Institutions of Roman Markets by Benito Arrunada VII. DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND REMEDIES 20. One Step at a Time in Roman Law: How Roman Pleading Rules Shape the Substantive Structure of Private Law by Richard A. Epstein 21. Private Prosecution and Enforcement in Roman Law by David Friedman 22. Deterrence of Wrongdoing in Ancient Law by Francesco Parisi, Daniel Pi, Barbara Luppi, and Iole Fargnoli 23. Collective Responsibility by Thomas J. Miceli 24. The Dual Origin of the Duty to Disclose in Roman Law by Barbara Abatino and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci Index.…