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Conclusion: From Man the Killer to Man the Tiller

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2024

James Q. Whitman
James Q. Whitman
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Yale University, Connecticut
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The ancient historian M. I. Finley once organized a forum to discuss “Roman investment in property.” Finley believed that studies of the ancient economy should put the focus on ancient elite mentalities, and his symposium was designed to test the proposition that ancient and modern mentalities differed: The question he put to the participants was “just what the notion of ‘investment’ meant in Roman society.” “[N]o presuppositions about maximization of income and the like,” he added, “were implicit in the choice of the word.”1

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From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
 , pp. 385 - 394
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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