Capital and Classical Antiquity – 09-10/04/2018, Berlin
U Berlinu se 9. i 10. travnja 2018. održava znanstveni skup o kapitalu i antici potaknut utjecajnom knjigom Thomasa Pikettyja “Kapital u 21. stoljeću”. Jedan od organizatora skupa je povjesničar Neville Morley koji je 2017. imao gostujuće predavanje na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was, within a few months of its publication in English in 2014, hailed as the most important work in political economy for many years. Piketty’s work makes a significant contribution to the understanding of inequality and wealth in the modern world, based on detailed analysis of data from the last few centuries; it also offers a striking new way of approaching the workings of the economy, drawing as much on historical sources and nineteenth-century novels as on abstract equations, to reveal the system’s inherent tendencies towards inequality and instability.
Piketty makes only a few passing mentions of pre-modern societies, including classical antiquity, emphasising their lack of significant development in comparison to the modern era. However, his work has significant implications for research in ancient economic history as well as modern, and at the very least offers a stimulating starting-point for debate that goes beyond the traditional polarities of modernism (‘the differences between past and present were quantitative rather than qualitative’) and primitivism (‘the past was utterly different and completely under-developed’).
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 09-10/04/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: (Berlin, Germany)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Neville Morley (Exeter) ; Christian Wendt (FU Berlin)
INFO: n.d.g.morley@exeter.ac.uk ; christian.wendt@fu-berlin.de
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Monday, 9.4.2018
1. 09:00-11:15: Capital and Inequality in History and Historiography
Hartmut Kälble (Berlin): Das Konzept Thomas Pikettys und die Anwendung auf die Sozialgeschichte
Beate Wagner-Hasel (Hannover): “Was in Truhen und Kisten lagert”: Zum Begriff von Besitz und Kapital in der griechischen Antike bei Karl Bücher
Myles Lavan (St Andrews): The dynamics of inequality in antiquity
2. 11:30-13:00: Economic Management in Classical Athens
Sven Günther (Changchun): Framing Capital: Xenophon’s Economic Model and Social System
Lara Laviola (Berlin): Wealth redistribution in classical Athens
3. 14:00-15:30: Limits to Capital Accumulation in Classical Greece
Michael Leese (New Hampshire): Problems in the Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece
Dorothea Rohde (Bielefeld): Pikettys Dilemma: Steuern im Athen des 4. Jahrhunderts
4. 15:45-17:30: Capital and Inequality in the Roman World
Colin Elliott (Indiana): Non-Neutral Money and Systemic Inequality in the Roman Principate
Paul Kelly (London): Was r > g? – evidence from Roman Egypt
Closing discussion
Tuesday, 10.4.2018
1. 09:00-11:15: Revenue and Capital Accumulation in Late Republican Rome
Max Koedijk (Berlin): Does wealth beget wealth? The case of Cicero
Bertrand Augier (Rom): New Men in the Roman Economic Revolution
Cristina Rosillo-López (Sevilla): Capital, rental prices and monetary policy in the Roman world: a measure of inequality?
2. 11:30-13:00: Urbanization and Capital Formation in the Roman Empire
John Weisweiler (Maryland): Predation, Urbanization and Capital Formation in the Early Imperial Senate (14-235 CE)
Arjan Zuiderhoek (Gent): Elite wealth, institutional change and the development of urbanism in the third-century Roman east
3. 14:00-17.00: Comparative Perspectives
Peter Fibiger Bang (Kopenhagen): The disparities of empire: the economic integration of predatory monopoly
Walter Scheidel (Stanford): Roman wealth and wealth inequality in comparative perspective
David Grewal (Yale): Oligarchy Ancient and Modern
Closing discussion