WORK IN PROGRESS

Papers under review or in progress

[with G. Alfani and M. Bolla] ‘Income inequality in ancient empires: the Roman and the Han compared,’ under revision for Nature Communications

[with R. R. Guthmann] ‘The economics of ancient Mediterranean slavery’ (under review)

‘The demography of the ancient Mediterranean world,’ for: D. Reher, K. Mandemakers and J. Kok (eds.), Elgar handbook on historical demography, Edward Elgar (in progress)

[with S. Bernard and M. Lavan] paper on slavery’s contribution to the Roman economy (in progress)

Projects in progress

New blood: Rome’s emperors in global perspective

translations of key German texts on the formation of Altertumswissenschaft in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Monographs at the planning stage

The demography of the Greco-Roman world, ‘Key themes in ancient history’ series, under contract with Cambridge University Press

a comparative study of the ancient histories of the Americas relative to those of Afroeurasia

a counterfactual history of human development during the last 800 years