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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Info Sponge, post: 749935, member: 20538&quot;]There are literally hundreds of theories about why Rome fell. The history of Britain has more to teach us, especially since there are good economic statistics for them which we don&#039;t have for Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>A goodie from Wikipedia: &quot;Some economists like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Temin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Temin" rel="nofollow">Peter Temin</a> consider the Roman Empire a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy" rel="nofollow">market economy</a>, similar in its degree of capitalistic practices to 17th century Netherlands and 18th century England.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#cite_note-84" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#cite_note-84" rel="nofollow">[85]</a>&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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