Statistics in Ancient History

This paper uses new data to extend the argument that there was an integrated wheat market in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I explore the meaning of randomness when data are scarce, and I investigate how we recreate the nature of ancient societies by asking new questions that stimu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Temin, Peter
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77609