The Political Economy of Classical Athens: A Naval Perspective

‎Contents
‎Preface
‎Figures, Tables and Graphs
	‎Figures
	‎Tables
	‎Graph
‎Introduction
‎Chapter 1. Primitive Positions—the Oikos Debate
	‎1. The Defining Quartet—Marx, Weber, Polanyi and Finley
	‎2. The Ancient Economy Post-Finley
‎Chapter 2. New Perspectives
	‎1. Institutions—the Engines of History
	‎2. Materialist Man and His Motivations
	‎3. The Only Constant is Change
	‎4. Commerce, Conquest and Colonisation
	‎5. The Malthusian Trap and Economic Efflorescences
‎Chapter 3. Warfare States
	‎1. Path Dependence
	‎2. The Political Economies of Athens and Sparta: a Comparative Analysis
	‎3. The Spartan Naval Mirage
‎Chapter 4. War, Strategy and the Transition to Triremes
	‎1. The Gift of Ares and Athenian Conquest Strategy
	‎2. Emerging Patterns of War
	‎3. Strategy
	‎4. Early Athenian Expansionism
	‎5. The Transition to Triremes
	‎6. Private to Polis Navies
‎Chapter 5. The Late Archaic Transition—the Naval Evidence
	‎1. Athens’ ‘Turn to the Sea’
	‎2. Casus Belli
	‎3. The Athenian Naval Revolution
	‎4. Themistocles’ Naval Expansion
‎Chapter 6. Money, Markets and Naval Procurement
	‎1. Coinage, Silver and Money Supply
	‎2. Trireme Costs and Lifespan
	‎3. Trireme Timber and Naval Procurement
	‎4. Provisioning the Fleet—a Network of Markets
‎Chapter 7. Naval Institutions—Trierarchy
	‎1. The Rules of the Game
	‎2. Liturgy—Delivering Public Goods
	‎3. Trierarchy—Delivering the Fleet
	‎4. Trierarchy in Theory and Practice
	‎5. Trierarchy—Institutional Evolution
	‎6. Cleruchy—Further Institutional Adaptation
‎Chapter 8. Naval Innovation
	‎1. The Archaic Fleet and Athenian Defence Strategy
	‎2. Naval Technological Innovation—the Ram
	‎3. Greek Innovation in Nautical Design
‎Chapter 9. Naval Defence Infrastructure
	‎1. Shipsheds
	‎2. The Athenian Circuit Walls
	‎3. The Piraeus
	‎4. The Long Walls
	‎5. Estimating the Costs
‎Chapter 10. Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens
	‎1. Hoplite Ideology and Its Persistence
	‎2. Schools of Democracy
	‎3. Athenian Trireme Crews
	‎4. Mercenaries, Metics and Slaves
	‎5. The Trireme School of Democracy
‎Chapter 11. The Ancient Athenian Naval Economy
	‎1. Economic Growth
	‎2. Instrumental Behaviour, Self-Interest and Markets
	‎3. The Athenian Labour Market
	‎4. The Naval Economy
	‎5. Size Matters
‎Chapter 12. The Wealth of Naval Athens
	‎1. The Versatile Trireme
	‎2. Counting the Cost of Naval Deployments
	‎3. The Business of Empire
	‎4. Costs of War
	‎5. Ancient Athenian Keynesians
‎Conclusions
‎Appendix: Sources
‎Bibliography
‎Index