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The Two-Way Relationship Between Freedman and Business in the Roman World

In: Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective

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  • Egidio Incelli

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Abstract

This chapter takes into consideration those among freed slaves who conducted business in the Roman Empire, in order to understand whether their activities defined a real entrepreneurial dimension or not. The author’s approach focuses on the social phenomena connected to the subject, particularly on the impact that the management of financial and commercial activities had on the freedmen’s identity. Incelli gives particular importance to case studies which show that, even after achieving a significant wealth, some freedmen chose to pass over their business to fellow co-workers sharing the same social status rather than closing it down, even though such activities were scorned by Roman society. After this analysis, the author concludes that the lack of proper conditions inhibited the impact of a faint, yet existing, entrepreneurial mentality on a strongly conservative aristocratic society.

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  • Egidio Incelli, 2022. "The Two-Way Relationship Between Freedman and Business in the Roman World," Frontiers in Economic History, in: Marcella Frangipane & Monika Poettinger & Bertram Schefold (ed.), Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective, pages 343-360, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-031-08763-9_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08763-9_18
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