This volume brings together ancient historians, New Testament scholars, and classicists to assess critically the New Institutional Economics framework.

David B. Hollander is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University, USA.

Thomas R. Blanton IV is Auxiliary Professor in New Testament Studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA.

John T. Fitzgerald is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction, John T. Fitzgerald, David B. Hollander, and Thomas R. Blanton IV; 1. The Extramercantile Economy: An Assessment of the New Institutional Economics: Paradigm in Relation to Recent Studies of Ancient Greece and Rome, Thomas R. Blanton IV and David B. Hollander; 2. Early Greek Economic Thought, John T. Fitzgerald; 3. Benefactors, Markets, and Trust in the Roman East: Civic Munificence as Extramercantile Exchange, Arjan Zuiderhoek; 4. Euergetism and the Embedded Economy of the Greek Polis, Marc Domingo Gygax; 5. The Economic and Cognitive Impacts of Personal Benefaction in Hispania Tarraconensis, Rachel Meyers; 6. New Institutional Economics, Euergetism, and Associations, John S. Kloppenborg; 7. The Economics of Solidarity: Mutual Aid and Reciprocal Services between Workers in Roman Cities, Nicolas Tran; Epilogue, David B. Hollander and Thomas R. Blanton IV; Index