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Author	Cohen, Edward E.
Title	Athenian economy and society : a banking perspective / Edward E. Cohen.
Imprint	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
	©1992

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	MESSAGE
OTTERBEIN MAIN COLLECTION	HG237 .C65 1992	AVAILABLE

Author	Cohen, Edward E.
Subject	Banks and banking -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
	Greece -- History -- Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C.

Table of Contents
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Market Economy - Banking Reality	3
		The Athenian Economy	3
		The Trapeza as True Bank	8
		Currency Exchange	18
		False Anachronism: The Modern Invention of the Athenian Pawnshop	22
Ch. 2	A Methodological Alternative to the Misuse of Statistics	26
		The Perils of Cliometrics	27
		"Forensic Attestation": An Alternative Approach	36
Ch. 3	Financial Context and Concepts	41
		Freedom from Regulation and Oligopoly	42
		In Lieu of Interest: "Maritime" and "Landed" Yields	44
Ch. 4	Wives, Slaves, and the Athenian Banker	61
		A "Strictly Personal" Business	62
		Assets, Human and Other	66
		Unavailable and Undesirable: Free Citizens as Bank Employees	70
		Slaves and Wives	73
		The Banking Household: A Traditional Form Transformed	82
		Adaptation to Slave Enterprise	90
		Women, Law, and Property	101
Ch. 5	Banking Operations: "Risk-Laden Revenues from 'Other People's Money'"	111
		Obtaining "Other People's Money"	114
		Deploying Other People's Money for Maritime Loans	121
		Maritime Finance	136
		Denial of the Role of Bankers in Sea Finance	160
		The Bankers' Own Money	183
Ch. 6	The Banks' Role in the Economy	190
		The "Invisible Economy"	191
		The Structure of Credit	207
		Bank Failures and Economic History	215
	Works Cited	225
	Index of Passages Cited	255
	General Index	269

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	MESSAGE
OTTERBEIN MAIN COLLECTION	HG237 .C65 1992	AVAILABLE

Author	Cohen, Edward E.
Subject	Banks and banking -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
	Greece -- History -- Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C.
Description	xviii, 288 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-253) and index.
ISBN	0691036098 (acid-free paper) : $35.00
	0691015929 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
OCLC #	25632545

Table of Contents
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Market Economy - Banking Reality		3
		The Athenian Economy	3
		The Trapeza as True Bank	8
		Currency Exchange	18
		False Anachronism: The Modern Invention of the Athenian Pawnshop	22
Ch. 2	A Methodological Alternative to the Misuse of Statistics		26
		The Perils of Cliometrics	27
		"Forensic Attestation": An Alternative Approach	36
Ch. 3	Financial Context and Concepts		41
		Freedom from Regulation and Oligopoly	42
		In Lieu of Interest: "Maritime" and "Landed" Yields	44
Ch. 4	Wives, Slaves, and the Athenian Banker		61
		A "Strictly Personal" Business	62
		Assets, Human and Other	66
		Unavailable and Undesirable: Free Citizens as Bank Employees	70
		Slaves and Wives	73
		The Banking Household: A Traditional Form Transformed	82
		Adaptation to Slave Enterprise	90
		Women, Law, and Property	101
Ch. 5	Banking Operations: "Risk-Laden Revenues from 'Other People's Money'"		111
		Obtaining "Other People's Money"	114
		Deploying Other People's Money for Maritime Loans	121
		Maritime Finance	136
		Denial of the Role of Bankers in Sea Finance	160
		The Bankers' Own Money	183
Ch. 6	The Banks' Role in the Economy		190
		The "Invisible Economy"	191
		The Structure of Credit	207
		Bank Failures and Economic History	215
	Works Cited		225
	Index of Passages Cited		255
	General Index		269

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