Workshop: Continuity and change in the economy of Graeco-Roman and Arab Egypt Leuven, 25th October, 2013

Program
KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts (Erasmushuis, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21), Justus Lipsius room 08.16
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9.30 Coffee
• 10.10 Paul Erdkamp (VUB), Welcome
• 10.15 Joe G. Manning (Yale Univ.), Empire and economic performance
• 11.00 Katelijn Vandorpe (KU Leuven), Land surveys and tax receipts as evidence of continuity in agricultural policy (Hellenistic Egypt)
11.45 Lunch
KU Leuven, Mgr. Sencie Instituut (Erasmusplein 2), room 00.14
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• 13.30 Andrew Monson (New York Univ.), Secure property rights and low taxes: a recipe for economic growth in Roman Egypt?
• 14.15 Isabella Tsigarida (Univ. Zürich), Salt trade in Roman Egypt
• 15.00 Coffee break
• 15.30 Yaacov Lev (Bar Ilan Univ.), Egypt’s agricultural economy in the transition from Byzantine to Arab rule
Participation is free but for practical reasons please notify: Katelijn.Vandorpe@arts.kuleuven.be
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