Regan Boychuk British, American, and Russian elites planned global domination through one great war a century ago, but it did not quite work out. Instead, today we approach a third world war to avoid democracy and the rational conservation of resources on a finite planet. It appears imperial monarchs were colluding in 1914 to vanquish […]
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Originally published at joefrancis.info Joe Francis Revising our assessment of the Spanish empire is in vogue among economic historians. Most notably, Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin (2006; 2008) have sought to revise the nature of the empire’s political economy. Their goal is to refute those who claim that the wealth gap between Anglo and Latin […]
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Originally published on Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix They called him the ‘Little Emperor’. Romulus Augustus — better known as Romulus ‘Augustulus’ (‘Little Augustus’) — was the last Western Roman Emperor. He assumed the throne at the age of 16 during a period of unprecedented strife. There had been 8 emperors in the […]
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