Statistics in Ancient History

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Temin, Peter
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Abstract
This paper uses new data to extend the argument that there was an integrated wheat market in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I explore the meaning of randomness when data are scarce, and I investigate how we recreate the nature of ancient societies by asking new questions that stimulate the discovery of more information. The case for a prosperous Roman society extending the length of the Mediterranean Sea is strong. This paper draws on and extends work reported in my new book: The Roman Market Economy (Princeton, 2013).
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2013-02-13
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77609
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Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Working paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics;13-06
Keywords
small samples, randomness, scarce data, Roman economy, ancient trade
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