Should-Read: Pseudoerasmus: Economic Growth in Ancient Greece: “The causes of [Ancient] Greek economic growth may have been ‘ordinary’… …but certainly their effects somehow were not. Ober is quite right that the peculiarly egalitarian institutions of the ancient Greeks cry out for an explanation. Here’s a possible scenario. The collapse of Mycenaean civilisation in the 12th century BCE allowed … Continue reading Should-Read: Pseudoerasmus: Economic Growth in Ancient Greece