Description:

Ancient Economies

May 23, 2025

Sponsored by:

Northwestern Center for Economic History

Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Walker Hanlon, co-directors

Organizers: Walker Hanlon and Taco Terpstra

Location: Kellogg Global Hub, Room 3301

Conference Program and Schedule

8:15-8:45 Light breakfast and coffee

8:45-9:00 Opening remarks

9:00-10:00 Taco Terpstra (Northwestern),

“Rome and the Rise of the West”

10:00-11:00 Ian Morris (Stanford), “The Geoeconomics of the Greek Miracle”

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Joe Manning (Yale), “Bringing Egypt, the Nile and Climate into the ‘Ancient

Economy’”

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Richard Saller (Stanford), “Some Demographic Context for Roman Institutional

Economics”

2:30-3:30 Kyle Harper (Oklahoma), “The Decline and Fall of the Ancient Economy”

3:30-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Michael McCormick (Harvard), “Recent and Future Scientific Work / Reaction

to Papers / General Discussion”

5:00-5:15 Closing remarks