Wages, welfare costs, and inflation in classical Athens

by William T. Loomis

Wages, Welfare Costs and Inflation in Classical Athens is an invaluable and comprehensive study of Athenian economics. It examines all surviving Athenian wages, salaries, welfare payments and other labor costs to determine what people really were paid for various kinds of work and allowances. Loomis provides a long-awaited critical study that takes account of the greatly expanded evidence, including Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, more than a dozen other papyrus texts and hundreds of inscriptions. He also takes account of the uneven quality of these sources.