Law and transaction costs in the ancient economy
In: Law and society in the ancient world
Introduction : transaction costs, ancient history, and the law / David Ratzan, Dennis Kehoe, and Uri Yiftach -- Transaction costs in Athenian law / Gerhard Thür -- Access, fairness, and transaction costs: Nikophon's law on silver coinage (Athens, 375-4 B.C.E.) / Josiah Ober -- Transaction costs and institutional change in Egypt, ca. 1070-525 B.C.E. / Brian Muhs -- Ptolemaic governance and transaction costs / J. G. Manning -- The cost of getting money in early Ptolemaic Egypt : the case of P.Cair.Zen. 1 59021 (258 B.C.E.) / Alain Bresson -- The Grammatikon : some considerations on the feeing policies of legal documents in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods / Uri Yiftach -- The Vivliothēkē enktēseōn and transaction costs in the credit market of Roman Egypt (30 B.C.E.- ca. 170 C.E.) / F. Lerouxel -- Transaction costs and contract in Roman Egypt : a case study in negotiating the right of repossession / David Ratzan -- Contracts, agency, and transaction costs in the Roman economy / Dennis Kehoe -- From free to fee? Judicial fees and other litigation costs during the high empire and late antiquity / R. Haensch -- The economic perspective : demand and supply in the reduction of transaction costs in the ancient world / Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
