The book is focused, on the one hand, on a historiographical analysis of the theoretical and methodological modelling of the structure and performance of the Roman economy. On the other hand, a polythetic bundle of economical proxies was devised as a methodological basis for the evaluation of archaeological legacy data for Southern Etruria to gain a more comprehensive picture of the spatial and diachronic development of the regional economy in the imperial era, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The study also contributes to questions of economic integration and specialisation as well as to the modelling of the economic suburbium of the city of Rome.
