| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Ch. 1 | Market Economy - Banking Reality | 3 |
| The Athenian Economy | 3 |
| The Trapeza as True Bank | 8 |
| Currency Exchange | 18 |
| False Anachronism: The Modern Invention of the Athenian Pawnshop | 22 |
| Ch. 2 | A Methodological Alternative to the Misuse of Statistics | 26 |
| The Perils of Cliometrics | 27 |
| "Forensic Attestation": An Alternative Approach | 36 |
| Ch. 3 | Financial Context and Concepts | 41 |
| Freedom from Regulation and Oligopoly | 42 |
| In Lieu of Interest: "Maritime" and "Landed" Yields | 44 |
| Ch. 4 | Wives, Slaves, and the Athenian Banker | 61 |
| A "Strictly Personal" Business | 62 |
| Assets, Human and Other | 66 |
| Unavailable and Undesirable: Free Citizens as Bank Employees | 70 |
| Slaves and Wives | 73 |
| The Banking Household: A Traditional Form Transformed | 82 |
| Adaptation to Slave Enterprise | 90 |
| Women, Law, and Property | 101 |
| Ch. 5 | Banking Operations: "Risk-Laden Revenues from 'Other People's Money'" | 111 |
| Obtaining "Other People's Money" | 114 |
| Deploying Other People's Money for Maritime Loans | 121 |
| Maritime Finance | 136 |
| Denial of the Role of Bankers in Sea Finance | 160 |
| The Bankers' Own Money | 183 |
| Ch. 6 | The Banks' Role in the Economy | 190 |
| The "Invisible Economy" | 191 |
| The Structure of Credit | 207 |
| Bank Failures and Economic History | 215 |
| Works Cited | 225 |
| Index of Passages Cited | 255 |
| General Index | 269 |
