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| Author(s): |
Miguel Soares Palmeira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2008-09-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Francisco Murari Pires;
Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros;
Manoel Luiz Lima Salgado Guimarães;
Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses;
Jose Antonio Dabdab Trabulsi
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| Advisor: | Francisco Murari Pires |
| Abstract | |
This thesis examines the role played by Moses I. Finley (1912-1986) in the academic controversies about ancient Greek and Roman economic history in the second half of the twentieth century. During the 1960s and 1970s, the studies on the ancient economy were transformed by systematic criticism of the use of formal economic notions in the analysis of societies which had not themselves forged a concept of economy. Among those who got involved in these debates, it is believed that Finley was its protagonist. Based on an analysis of the views on economic history held by Finley, of the mechanisms of validation of these views and of his trajectory, I try to elucidate some aspects of the social and epistemological conditions that made the reconfiguration of modern academic perception of ancient economic life possible. (AU) | |