Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-70974-1_17
D. Mcqueen
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Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108290531.008
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108290531.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290531.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198999,"journal":{"name":"Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130297621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108290531.006
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Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108290531.002
Keith W. Hopkins
History-writing is a subjective art. The historian is an agent – an individual who selects, arranges, interprets and emplots a series of ‘facts’ within a narrative determined, whether consciously or subconsciously, by ideology. There is a fundamental difference between the past – events which empirically occurred in physical, temporal reality – and what historical theorist Hayden White calls “the historical past” – “a construction and only a highly selective version of the past.” Even the historical ‘facts’ themselves – the building blocks of historiography – are inescapably subjective, even intangible. Neville Morley pithily observes “a fact is a verbal statement, an idea, with no empirical existence outside people’s minds.” Although not all historians are willing to embrace such a deconstructionist or otherwise broadly postmodern dissonance between ‘history’ and ‘the past’, there is broad agreement in the mainstream of the discipline that history-writing is a process of argumentation, interpretation and weighing plausibilities. History-writing, therefore, cannot be called ‘objective’. Not so with many of the theories of modern economics – a result of many developments, but especially the early twentieth century’s distinction between ‘value-free’ (wertfrei) and ‘normative’ economics as well as the widespread adoption of Chicago School economist Milton Friedman’s concept of “positive economics” in the s. Now central within the overarching methodology of modern economics is the idea that economic propositions are ‘testable’ in the same way as scientific statements about the natural world. Economic propositions – accompanied scientificsounding terminology – hold the status of hypotheses which can and must
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Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108290531.010
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108290531.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290531.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198999,"journal":{"name":"Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126730092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108290531.007
{"title":"Understanding Money Use and Value","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108290531.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290531.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198999,"journal":{"name":"Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115426452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108290531.003
{"title":"Embedding Contexts of Roman Money","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108290531.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290531.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198999,"journal":{"name":"Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121076739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}