A comparison of the two sets of figures published yesterday reveals interesting features. While the USA is ahead of China in ...

What Ancient Rome can tell us about the fate of Trump’s tariffs - ANALYSIS: When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems ...

A plant used by the ancient Greeks for medicine, food and even contraception, was one of the most sought-after goods in the ...

Hikers and mountaineers are finding ancient human artifacts in the melting glaciers of the Alps. Some discoveries are valuable snapshots of ancient economies, while others are total mysteries ...

Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

Farming didn t emerge in the Andes due to crisis or scarcity it was a savvy and resilient evolution. Ancient diets remained ...

A recent study has revealed surprising findings about how the economy in ancient Britain grew during the Roman era. The findings, published in the prestigious journal Science Advances, challenge the ...

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However, ancient economic and labor historians like Bernard, Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Sarah Levin-Richardson, Miko Flohr, and many others are working to demonstrate that both the individual lives ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Then, ideas on rational religion and institutional economic governance become much more visible. Through textual, narratological analysis, the paper contributes to an institutional economic theory of ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar. In fact, tariffs were also used in Ancient Rome, and for some of the reasons that governments ...