Steven Rendall

Biographic Data

ID3681392
NAMESteven Rendall
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMERendall
SIGNATURERENDALL S
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS218
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • A History of Political Conflict

    Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty et al.BOOKA History of Political Conflict2025

  • Balance of Power

    É Monnet, Éric Monnet et al.BOOKBalance of Power2024Cited by: 6

  • A Brief History of Equality

    Thomas Piketty, Steven RendallBOOKBrief History of Equality2022

    In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world and shows how we can learn from them to make equality a lasting reality

  • City-States, Taxes, and Trade

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the taxation system for trade and commerce in ancient Greece. It first considers how foreign trade and customs duties were supervised before discussing the system of taxation for maritime trade. Citing documents concerning tax exemptions, the chapter shows that traders were constantly seeking privileges in an effort to avoid paying taxes. Maritime shipping was the quickest and least expensive way to move goods, and ports wer…

  • Nonagricultural Production, Capital, and Innovation

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the logic of capital and innovation in nonagricultural production in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It begins with a discussion of fish production and consumption in ancient Greece, focusing on salt production and the preservation of food supplies by means of salt and salting, before discussing the Greek cities' exploitation of their coastal waters. It then considers the importance of fish trade and fish consumption to fo…

  • The Economy of Ancient Greece

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter describes the conceptual framework used by the book to study the economy of ancient Greece. It begins with a discussion of the debate between “primitivists,” represented by Karl Bücher, and “modernists,” represented by Eduard Meyer, over the nature of the ancient Greek economy. It considers Bücher's adherence to the so-called German Historical School of Political Economy and goes on to examine the views of Moses I. Finley and Max Web…

  • Agricultural Production

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the growth of agricultural production in the Greek city-states. It traces the evolutions and mutations of agriculture in the ancient Greek world as well as the consequences of these changes, first by discussing the so-called Mediterranean trilogy that comprised ancient Greek agriculture: grain, olives, and grapes. While cereals, grapes, and olives constituted the heart of agricultural production in ancient Greece, the role p…

  • The Greek Cities and the Market

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the extent and the limits of the market system in ancient Greece. It begins with a historical overview of the center-periphery model that emerged during the period, predation as a defining characteristic of the ancient Greek market, and the divergence of prices from one region to another—often seen as a symptom of a lack of market integration. It then compares the overall performance of the market in the city-states with tho…

  • The Economy of the Agricultural World

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the social and technical conditions that both structured the Greek agricultural economy's permanent features and presided over the changes it experienced. It first considers the structures of real property, with a particular focus on the distribution of property, the size of the estates, and access to land and farming systems. It then discusses the crucial questions of risk management in an unpredictable environment, taking …

  • Energy, Economy, and Transport Cost

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the role of energy in the economic growth of ancient Greece, with particular emphasis on the impact of the cost of transportation. It first considers the different sources of energy in the Greek city-states, including heat generated by the sun, wood, and charcoal, before discussing the question regarding the cost of energy and the economic conditions for using steam engines during the period. It then explains how wind energy…

  • People in Their Environment

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the demography of ancient Greece from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods, focusing on the role of people in the development of the ecological environment. It first considers the ecological framework, taking into account the constraints imposed by topography and soils as well as the variability of the climate and vegetation. It then describes the demographic model of the world of the Greek city-states before taking up the…

  • The Emporion and the Markets

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines how the emporion served as an important tool for Greek city-states to regulate the markets. It first provides an overview of the emporion , defined as a “trading port” or “the port area,” and thus also the “business area,” along with its constraints and advantages. It then considers how foreign trade was supervised in cities and goes on to describe the function of the deigma , the place where business was transacted. It also…

  • Strategies of International Trade

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the strategies employed in international trade in ancient Greece. It explains how the rules of trade and the distribution of “natural advantages” played the role of a system of constraints within which genuine strategies of foreign trade could be constructed. To better understand the specificity of these trade strategies, the chapter first considers the two institutional logics that prevailed in the international market: the…

  • International Trade Networks

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the complex commercial networks of international trade in ancient Greece, made possible by “creating” new products through the exploitation of the natural environment or through artisanal production and commerce. It begins with a discussion of how division of labor emerged in foreign trade and how it led to gains in productivity. It also describes the center-periphery model of the late Archaic period and the Classical period…

  • The Institutions of the Domestic Market

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the institutions of the domestic market system in the Greek city-states. It begins with a discussion of private property in relation to trade, noting that, in the framework of the kind of collective appropriation constituted by the city-state, citizens were free to use their property as they wished. It then considers the city-states' law and legal practices relating to transactions, with particular emphasis on the law of sal…

  • Money and Credit

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the relation between credit and money, as well as the possibility that credit might have an autonomous role as a monetary instrument, in ancient Greece. It first considers the use of precious metals, including gold and silver, as monetary instruments in trade before discussing the rise of coinage in the Greek city-states, the connection between coined money and market exchange, minting and the question of how minted money wa…

  • The Polis and the Economy

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the process that allowed the Greek city-states to achieve an impressive level of economic growth. It begins with a short historical overview of the development that took place in Greece from the end of the Bronze Age until the Archaic period, when the “eighth-century revolution” enabled Greece to experience a first phase of significant growth, including population growth. It then considers the taxation system of the city-sta…

  • The Logic of Growth

    Alain Bresson, Steven RendallCHAPTERThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018

    This chapter examines the logic of growth in the Greek city-states. It first considers the relationship between self-consumption and economic growth, focusing on the roles played by self-consumption and the market in agriculture and in the ancient Greek economy more generally. It then explains how the Greek cities managed to become the dominant culture in the Mediterranean between about 700 BCE and 300 BCE after experiencing negative growth at th…

  • Montaigne, A Life

    Philippe Desan, Steven Rendall et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2018

    Desan, Philippe. Montaigne, A Life. Trans. Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2018, pp. 5-245), on Érudit

  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

    Open AccessAlain Bresson, Steven RendallBOOKThe Making of the Ancient Greek…2018Cited by: 16

    This comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. The book combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent economic historiography to provide a detailed picture of the Greek economy between the last century of the Archaic Age and the closing of the Hellenistic period. Focusing on the city-state, which the author see…

  • Sophocles

    Jacques Jouanna, Steven RendallBOOKSophocles2018Cited by: 5

  • Montaigne

    Philippe Desan, Steven Rendall et al.BOOKMontaigne2017

  • The Sociology of Howard S. Becker

    Alain Pessin, Steven RendallBOOKThe Sociology of Howard S. Becker2017Cited by: 8

  • A Short History of German Philosophy

    Vittorio Hösle, Steven RendallBOOKShort History of German Philosophy2016

  • A Short History of German Philosophy

    Open AccessVittorio Hösle, Steven RendallBOOKA Short History of German…2016

    This book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, the book traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including literature, politics, and science. Starting with the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, the book addresses the philosophical changes brought abou…