VILLAS, TAXES AND TRADE IN FOURTH CENTURY HISPANIA.
Many current models of the Roman economy are predicated on a bleak Late Antiquity, including Hopkins’ “taxes and trade” model. These models have yet to reckon with an uptick in economic matrices in the early 4th. This article addresses one piece of this puzzle, namely, expansion of villa constructio...
| Publicado en: | Late Antique Archaeology Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 191 - 227 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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| Sumario: | Many current models of the Roman economy are predicated on a bleak Late Antiquity, including Hopkins’ “taxes and trade” model. These models have yet to reckon with an uptick in economic matrices in the early 4th. This article addresses one piece of this puzzle, namely, expansion of villa construction in Hispania. The articles argues that this expansion was tied to increased imperial presence and intensified taxation, and produced a band of social opportunism of which villas are the detritus. Cet article se propose de passer en revue les sources relatives à l’économie de la province d’Hispanie durant le IV s., en mettant plus particulièrement l’accent sur les données relatives aux villas de la région. On promeut ici une conception de l’économie à mi-chemin entre le “taxes and trade model” développé par Hopkins et l’idée maximaliste de marché libre. Une vision de la consommation comme ancrée dans la société et stimulée par l’État peut ainsi être avancée ; s’il est clair que des économies dynamiques existaient à un niveau local au IV s., cela s’explique en grande partie par l’intervention impériale. |
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