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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4122666, member: 93416"]Thanks - that was my point here. BTW Muhammed Khalji was psychologically extraordinary. Apparently, like Charlemagne and Akbar, he changed the whole face of politics and economics, but never managed to learn to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should add that to me there seems something seriously lop sided in trying to understand Ancient Economics but looking only at Greece and Rome. The Greeks and Romans wrote nearly nothing on economic matters - while the Ancient Chinese wrote reams (for instance on the quantity theory of money). Hardly seems likely to me that the Greeks and Romans were more stupid than the Chinese. I judge the reality was it was ‘bad form’ in Ancient Europe to explicitly discuss economics in public – in much the way it was ‘bad form’ in Ancient China to discuss politics in public.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow – I fear that if one couples modern economic doctrines to a narrow and impoverished source of data you can quickly end up with modern economists offering distorted and self serving results.</p><p><br /></p><p>No doubt opportunities will arise soon enough to press that point further</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 4122666, member: 93416"]Thanks - that was my point here. BTW Muhammed Khalji was psychologically extraordinary. Apparently, like Charlemagne and Akbar, he changed the whole face of politics and economics, but never managed to learn to read. I should add that to me there seems something seriously lop sided in trying to understand Ancient Economics but looking only at Greece and Rome. The Greeks and Romans wrote nearly nothing on economic matters - while the Ancient Chinese wrote reams (for instance on the quantity theory of money). Hardly seems likely to me that the Greeks and Romans were more stupid than the Chinese. I judge the reality was it was ‘bad form’ in Ancient Europe to explicitly discuss economics in public – in much the way it was ‘bad form’ in Ancient China to discuss politics in public. Anyhow – I fear that if one couples modern economic doctrines to a narrow and impoverished source of data you can quickly end up with modern economists offering distorted and self serving results. No doubt opportunities will arise soon enough to press that point further Rob T[/QUOTE]
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