Should-Read: Mark Koyama: The End of the Past: “Temin’s GDP estimates suggest that Roman Italy had comparable per capita income to the Dutch Republic in 1600… …Schiavone… raises important points that I had fully not considered previously…. Aelius Aristides celebrating the wealth of the Roman empire in the mid-2nd century AD… a panegyric addressed to … Continue reading Should-Read: Mark Koyama: The End of the Past