Technological innovation and economic progress in the ancient world: M. I. Finley re-considered

By Kevin D. Greene. 2000

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The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world (2007, background): “Just like assertions about economic growth (see above, Growth), claims about the significance of technological progress (e.g., Greene 2000) must be assessed in quantitative terms over time and judged from a comparative perspective: it is the rate of innovation that is crucial, not scattered…”
Quantifying the Roman Economy: Integration, Growth, Decline? (2013, background): “92 e.g. Wikander 1984; Greene 2000; Wilson 2002a; and the various papers in Lo Cascio 2006.”
The Economy of the Early Roman Empire (2006, background): “…to take only the most famous of examples, was not only a structure to bring water for the residents of Arles to bathe in, watch in fountains and drink, it also was part of an agricultural irrigation system tapped at several points for irrigation and even power for milling grain (Greene, 2000).”
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C. (2006, unknown): “” Greene (2000) argues that, in the West, Greco-Roman dynamism was part of a long continuum from the European Iron Age to medieval technological progress and the industrial revolution.”