Morris Silver

Dados Biográficos

ID3709737
NOMEMorris Silver
PRENOMESMorris
SOBRENOMESilver
ASSINATURASILVER M
AFILIAÇÕESCity College of New York
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES144
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1965
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ÍNDICE H7

  • "Slave-Wives, Single Women and “Bastards" in the Ancient Greek World

    Morris SilverBOOKSlave-Wives, Single Women and…2018Citada por: 1

    Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallake, the hetaira, and the nothos. It is argued that legitimate marriage - that is `marriage by loan of the bride to the groom' - was not the only form of legal mar…

  • Bondage by contract in the late Roman empire

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEInternational Review of Law and…2017Referências: 14

  • The Role of Slave Markets in Migration from the Near East to Rome

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEKlio2016Citada por: 1Referências: 22

    This paper begins with a brief review of evidence for migration to the relatively affluent city of Rome during the earlier Empire. Then it is suggested that most slaves coming to Rome at this time originated in the Greek East and that these slaves were volunteers not forcible captives. Slavery by contract made it possible for individuals to overcome credit constraints limiting their ability to borrow to finance training and migration. This view i…

  • The Market for Uncertainty Bearing in Roman Egypt

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2014Referências: 3

    This paper (re)calls attention to an unusual, much discussed Roman era Egyptian contract between Tetoueis and Venaphrios for the future delivery of grain. It is argued that the contractual provisions cannot be adequately explained within the framework of strictly credit or strictly commodity purchase instruments. It is shown, however, that sale in advance transactions for grain (and also for wine) can be understood by placing uncertainty in the f…

  • Places for Self-Selling in Ulpian, Plautus and Horace

    Morris SilverARTICLEMnemosyne2013Referências: 6

    Ulpian refers to “places” frequented by those who “declare themselves for sale.” Plautus places persons who “sell themselves” in Rome’s Tuscan Quarter and arguably links this activity with the statue of Vertumnus. This article argues that Vertumnus presided over a place where individuals sold themselves into slavery and/or, less likely, sponsored a kind of labor-exchange

  • The Plague under Commodus as an Unintended Consequence of Roman Grain Market Regulation

    Morris SilverARTICLEThe Classical World2012

    This paper begins with a review of Roman grain market policies. It is argued that policies such as forced sales and maximum prices made urban consumers hesitant to rely on the market for secure access to grain. Consequently, consumers hoarded grain in their homes. The hoarded grain formed a volatile fuel ready to be ignited by the arrival of the bubonic plague bacillus. This scenario fits events in the city of Rome under Commodus. Attested grain …

  • A Fiscalist Interpretation of De Republica 3.16

    Morris SilverARTICLEPhoenix2011

    Cicero's De Republica 3.16 refers to a ban on the cultivation by Transalpinae gentes of vineyards and oliveyards. Various explanations of the ban have been advanced, citing considerations of national interest (Paterson, Tchernia) or imperialist goals (Frank, Badi ́n). This paper proposes a new, fiscalist interpretation: the aim of the ban was to protect the very large revenues flowing to the Roman treasury from the transit duty levied on Italian …

  • Historical otherness, the Roman bazaar, and primitivism

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2009Citada por: 3

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  • Glimpses of Vertical Integration/Disintegration in Ancient Rome

    Morris SilverARTICLEAncient Society2009Citada por: 1

  • Kloppenborg on Crop-Share Leases in Jewish Palestine

    Morris SilverARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2009

    Kloppenborg (K. 44, 48, 61) suggests that crop-share leases began to become popular in viticulture beginning in the third century BCE in Jew ish Palestine in the Hellenistic period.1 The aim of this communication is to correct a fundamental misconception in K s discussion of the economics of crop-share leases. This misconception causes K to lose control over some rather interesting evidence. A consideration of the relevant economic the ory is nec…

  • What Makes Shabti Slave

    Morris SilverARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…2009Citada por: 2

    The first part of this paper considers why small funerary figures called shabtis, were willing to slave in the Beyond for deceased Egyptians. The proposed answer is that they agreed in return for being given "life" by the craftsman. It is well understood that ancient Egyptians were willing to utilize standard legal forms to mediate between the earthly and supernatural dimensions. However, consideration of the "contract" between craftsmen and shab…

  • Those Exotic Roman Elites

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEHistoria2007Citada por: 1Referências: 2

  • Roman Economic Growth and Living Standards

    Morris SilverARTICLEAncient Society2007Citada por: 18

  • “Coinage Before Coins?”

    Morris SilverARTICLELevant2006

    A response to Raz Kletter “Coinage Before Coins?” published in Levant (2004), in which Kletter claims that sealed bundles of precious metals did not circulate as currency in the ancient Near East.

  • Slaves versus Free Hired Workers in Ancient Greece

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEHistoria2006Citada por: 5Referências: 5

  • Economic Structures of Antiquity

    Daniel C Snell, Morris SilverARTICLEThe American Historical Review1996Citada por: 2

  • Economic Structures of Antiquity

    Benjamin R Foster, Morris SilverARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1996Citada por: 18

  • Books in review

    Open AccessEllen Frankel Paul, David S Webster et al.ARTICLESociety1995

  • "On Profit-Seeking, Market Orientations, and Mentality in the "Ancient Near East

    John F Robertson, Morris SilverARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1993

  • Taking Ancient Mythology Economically

    Morris SilverBOOKTaking Ancient Mythology…1992Citada por: 1

    The primary objective of this study is to decipher the 'codes' or polysemous signs of many prominent myths of the Graeco-Roman and Near Eastern worlds and thereby to expose their hidden economic meaning. The study is highlighted by analyses of the following themes: Birth of Athena from Zeus' Head, Perseus and the Gorgon, and Gilgamesh in the Cedar Forest; Oedipus of Thebes and the biblical myth of the Five Golden Tumors; Semele the daughter of Ka…

  • Foundations of Economic Justice

    S Subramanian, Morris SilverARTICLEEconomica1991

    Part 1 Property Rights, Object Powers and the Problem of Theft: Property Rights and Property Defined Property Rights Triggers or Elicitors Scope of Property Rights Property Rights Versus Object Powers Theft Defined and Illustrated. Part 2 Production and Property Rights: Production and Property Feelings Natural Objects and Productive Activity Settlers and Indians in New England - A Case Study Locke's Mixing Methaphor and Proviso Social Contracts a…

  • Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East

    Benjamin R Foster, Morris SilverARTICLEThe American Historical Review1988

  • Prophets and Markets. The Political Economy of Ancient Israel

    C H J De Geus, Morris SilverARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1986

  • Karl Polanyi and Markets in the Ancient Near East

    Open AccessMorris SilverARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1985

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  • Slave-Wives, Single Women and “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek World

    Morris Silver

    Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallake, the hetaira, and the nothos. It is argued that legitimate marriage - that is `marriage by loan of the bride to the groom' - was not the only form of legal mar…