Complexity Economics

Chapter 1: Introduction: Finding a new approach to ancient proxy data.- Part I- Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies.- Chapter 2: Playing by whose rules? Institutional resilience, conflict and change in the Roman economy.- Chapter 3: Networks as Proxies: a relational approach towards economic complexity in the Roman period.- Chapter 4: Evaluating the potential of computational modelling for informing debates on Roman economic integration.- Chapter 5: Visualising Roman institutional environments for exchange as a complex system.- PART II- Urban Systems.- Chapter 6: Social complexity and complexity economics. Studying socio-economic systems at Düzen Tepe and Sagalassos (SW Turkey).-  Chapter 7: A method for estimating Roman population sizes from urban survey contexts: an application in central Adriatic Italy.-  Chapter 8: Complexity and urban hierarchy of ancient urbanism: the cities of Roman Asia Minor.- PART III-Epidemics.- Chapter 9: Disease proxies and the diagnosis of the late Antonine economy.- Chapter 10: Measuring and Comparing Economic Interaction Based on the Paths and Speed of Infections. The Case Study of the Spread of the Justinianic Plague and Black Death.

Koenraad Verboven is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient social and economic history, including the monograph The Economy of Friends: Economic Aspects of Amicitia and Patronage in the Late Republic and six edited volumes on Roman economic and legal history.