Mentality, motivation, and economic decision-making in Ancient Rome
Cicero and Tullia's shrine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3455225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta García Morcillo (0000-0002-2813-5199, University of Roehampton London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 623-643 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ehr.12909 |
| OpenAlex | W2995124255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 43 |
Cicero's letters to his friend Atticus are an invaluable source for the study of the financial and economic activities pursued by Late Republican upper-class Romans. Beyond the information concerning the diversity, scale, and impact of their businesses, these extraordinary documents give enlightening testimonies to the psychological factors that affected economic behaviour and the process of decision-making. The case of Tullia's shrine, a complex operation that concerned the search for and purchase of a garden-estate in one of the most exclusive areas of the Roman suburbs, became Cicero's most personal challenge and obsession. An accurate study of this affair through the orator's own voice allows us to explore the concept of ancient rationality, as well as the psychological and environmental mechanisms that led to economic strategies and performances. The study also tests the applicability of ideas and methodologies from the field of behavioural economics in the context of the first-century BC real estate market, a fluctuating and speculative business sector highly informed by credit culture, social status, and unstable politics
Archaeology · Cicero · Class (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Diversity (politics) · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Estate · Field (mathematics) · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Real estate · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · History · Law · Philosophy
Senatorial wealth and Roman politics
The winner's curse
Rome's Economic Revolution
Investment, Profit, and Tenancy
Law and Economic Institutions
The Early Roman Empire
Urban Property Investment
The Ciceronian Aristocracy and Its Properties
Rationality in Psychology and Economics
Prospect Theory
Toward a positive theory of consumer choice
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Banking and business in the Roman world
Terentia, Tullia and Publilia
Antike Wirtschaft und ihre kulturelle Prägung - The Cultural Shaping of the Ancient Economy
Sur les choix économiques des notables romains
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
A grief observed
Mental accounting matters
Tradition et Raison chez Cicéron
A Revisionist View of Roman Money
Caesar, Cicero and the Problem of Debt
Mentalités et choix économiques des Romains
Cicero's Letters to Atticus
Cicero in Letters
The upper-class house as symbol and focus of emotion in Cicero
Money in the Late Roman Republic
Shared Mental Models
Letters to Atticus
Economic Rationalism and the Heroninos Archive
Cité et réciprocité
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |