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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Rome did not run on glory alone. It ran on money, and nowhere was that money more ruthlessly organized than inside the roaring bowl of the Circus Maximus. Two hundred and fifty thousand spectators packed those stands on race day, more people than most ancient cities held in total. They came…to watch four factions, the Reds, Whites, Blues, and Greens, hurl chariots around a stone spine at breakable speed. What they rarely saw was the empire behind the spectacle: stable syndicates that bred and traded horses worth more than senatorial estates, betting networks that moved currency across provinces faster than the imperial post, and charioteers who began as slaves and retired as some of the wealthiest free men in the ancient world. Circus Economics pulls back the curtain on this hidden machine. It follows the money from the breeding farms of Hispania and North Africa, where horses were selected with the same cold calculation modern scouts apply to draft picks, through training compounds where a single promising colt could bankrupt a rival faction if it changed hands, into counting rooms where faction managers balanced books that would not look out of place in a modern trading house. It traces how a driver like Gaius Appuleius Diocles walked away from the track having earned, by some estimates, a fortune equivalent to the treasury of a small province, and how the syndicates behind him functioned less like sports clubs and more like multinational holding companies with political influence stretching into the Senate itself. This is a book about incentives as much as chariots. Why did emperors pour public funds into races that cost more than aqueducts? Why did faction loyalty split the city along lines as sharp as any political party? Who actually profited when a driver died in a crash before eighty thousand cheering fans? The answers reveal a Roman economy far more sophisticated, and far more familiar, than the marble and myth usually let on. Sponsorship deals, celebrity endorsement, insider trading on race outcomes, and labor markets for enslaved athletes all existed in some form nearly two thousand years before anyone coined the term sports business. Drawing on inscriptions, legal texts, satirical poetry, and the account records that survived by accident rather than design, this book reconstructs a financial world that has been hiding in plain sight for centuries, disguised as mere entertainment. Readers of ancient history will find a fresh lens on daily Roman life. Readers of business and economic history will recognize patterns that never really left us: monopoly formation, athlete valuation, public subsidy of private spectacle, and the quiet power of those who control the odds. Circus Economics is not another retelling of gladiators and emperors. It is the story of the accountants, breeders, bookmakers, and stable owners who understood something the crowd never did, that the real race was for the money, and it never stopped. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Rome did not run on glory alone. It ran on money, and nowhere was that money more ruthlessly organized than inside the roaring bowl of the Circus Maximus.Two hundred and fifty thousand spectators packed those stands on race day, more people than most ancient cities held in total. They came t…o watch four factions, the Reds, Whites, Blues, and Greens, hurl chariots around a stone spine at breakable speed. What they rarely saw was the empire behind the spectacle: stable syndicates that bred and traded horses worth more than senatorial estates, betting networks that moved currency across provinces faster than the imperial post, and charioteers who began as slaves and retired as some of the wealthiest free men in the ancient world.Circus Economics pulls back the curtain on this hidden machine. It follows the money from the breeding farms of Hispania and North Africa, where horses were selected with the same cold calculation modern scouts apply to draft picks, through training compounds where a single promising colt could bankrupt a rival faction if it changed hands, into counting rooms where faction managers balanced books that would not look out of place in a modern trading house. It traces how a driver like Gaius Appuleius Diocles walked away from the track having earned, by some estimates, a fortune equivalent to the treasury of a small province, and how the syndicates behind him functioned less like sports clubs and more like multinational holding companies with political influence stretching into the Senate itself.This is a book about incentives as much as chariots. Why did emperors pour public funds into races that cost more than aqueducts? Why did faction loyalty split the city along lines as sharp as any political party? Who actually profited when a driver died in a crash before eighty thousand cheering fans? The answers reveal a Roman economy far more sophisticated, and far more familiar, than the marble and myth usually let on. Sponsorship deals, celebrity endorsement, insider trading on race outcomes, and labor markets for enslaved athletes all existed in some form nearly two thousand years before anyone coined the term sports business.Drawing on inscriptions, legal texts, satirical poetry, and the account records that survived by accident rather than design, this book reconstructs a financial world that has been hiding in plain sight for centuries, disguised as mere entertainment. Readers of ancient history will find a fresh lens on daily Roman life. Readers of business and economic history will recognize patterns that never really left us: monopoly formation, athlete valuation, public subsidy of private spectacle, and the quiet power of those who control the odds.Circus Economics is not another retelling of gladiators and emperors. It is the story of the accountants, breeders, bookmakers, and stable owners who understood something the crowd never did, that the real race was for the money, and it never stopped. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Rome did not run on glory alone. It ran on money, and nowhere was that money more ruthlessly organized than inside the roaring bowl of the Circus Maximus.Two hundred and fifty thousand spectators packed those stands on race day, more people than most ancient cities held in total. They came t…o watch four factions, the Reds, Whites, Blues, and Greens, hurl chariots around a stone spine at breakable speed. What they rarely saw was the empire behind the spectacle: stable syndicates that bred and traded horses worth more than senatorial estates, betting networks that moved currency across provinces faster than the imperial post, and charioteers who began as slaves and retired as some of the wealthiest free men in the ancient world.Circus Economics pulls back the curtain on this hidden machine. It follows the money from the breeding farms of Hispania and North Africa, where horses were selected with the same cold calculation modern scouts apply to draft picks, through training compounds where a single promising colt could bankrupt a rival faction if it changed hands, into counting rooms where faction managers balanced books that would not look out of place in a modern trading house. It traces how a driver like Gaius Appuleius Diocles walked away from the track having earned, by some estimates, a fortune equivalent to the treasury of a small province, and how the syndicates behind him functioned less like sports clubs and more like multinational holding companies with political influence stretching into the Senate itself.This is a book about incentives as much as chariots. Why did emperors pour public funds into races that cost more than aqueducts? Why did faction loyalty split the city along lines as sharp as any political party? Who actually profited when a driver died in a crash before eighty thousand cheering fans? The answers reveal a Roman economy far more sophisticated, and far more familiar, than the marble and myth usually let on. Sponsorship deals, celebrity endorsement, insider trading on race outcomes, and labor markets for enslaved athletes all existed in some form nearly two thousand years before anyone coined the term sports business.Drawing on inscriptions, legal texts, satirical poetry, and the account records that survived by accident rather than design, this book reconstructs a financial world that has been hiding in plain sight for centuries, disguised as mere entertainment. Readers of ancient history will find a fresh lens on daily Roman life. Readers of business and economic history will recognize patterns that never really left us: monopoly formation, athlete valuation, public subsidy of private spectacle, and the quiet power of those who control the odds.Circus Economics is not another retelling of gladiators and emperors. It is the story of the accountants, breeders, bookmakers, and stable owners who understood something the crowd never did, that the real race was for the money, and it never stopped. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Circus Economics | The Hidden Financial Empire Behind Chariot Racing Syndicates | Marcus Verdineau | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Expedition Publishers | EAN 9798235037427 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Pr…int on Demand.
