Honor and Profit: Athenian Trade Policy and the Economy and Society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E.

University of Michigan Press, 2010. Hardcover. Very good/Like new. Very good hardcover with textured black cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine in a like new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 1.4 x 9 inches) The book is from the working library of Professor Peter Green and approximately 12 pages have margin notes in pencil but does not affect the text. Includes appendices [3], notes, references, index of Greek words, index of passages cited, and a general index. 400 pp.

Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Honor and Profit offers a welcome corrective to the outmoded Finleyite view of the ancient economy. This important volume collects and analyzes economic evidence including government decrees for all known occasions on which Athens granted honors and privileges for services relating to trade.

The analysis proceeds within the intellectual framework of substantive economic theory, in which formal market behavior and institutions are considered to be but a subset of a larger group of economic behaviors and institutions devoted to the production, distribution, and exchange of goods.

Honor and Profit merges theory with empirical historical evidence to illustrate the complexity and dynamism of the ancient Greek economy. The author's conclusions have broad implications for our understanding not only of Athens and environs but also of the social and political history of Greece and the ancient Mediterranean world.

Darel Tai Engen is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos.