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Title: Vertical Integration in the Roman Economy
Subtitle: A Response to Morris Silver
Author(s): BROEKAERT, Wim
Journal: Ancient Society
Volume: 42    Date: 2012   
Pages: 109-125
DOI: 10.2143/AS.42.0.2172290

Abstract :
Evidence on vertically integrated enterprises in Roman production and trade sectors is by no means as scarce as is often assumed. Both monumental epigraphy and inscriptions on archaeological objects testify to backward and forward integration as an efficiency enhancing mechanism.

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