Since the subject of inflation under Emperor Diocletian won’t seem to stop dogging Paul Krugman, I thought I might try to bring a little information to the table following Prόdromos-Ioánnis ...
When you hear Diocletian's Palace, you might picture a castle with halls to tour and works of art to enjoy, but you'd be mistaken. Back in the fourth century, this palace was created as a fortress, ...
The “Crisis of the Third Century,” a fifty-year period which saw some two dozen men hold the imperium and some score more make bids for it, came to an end with the accession of Diocletian (r., 284-305 ...
Kamala Harris’s proposal (FT View, August 21) to fix prices to deal with inflation is an approach that has been tried before, at least as long ago as ancient Rome. Consider this excerpt from Robert ...
Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Therefore, who would not know that effrontery hijacks the public interest? […] It ratchets up the prices of things for sale, not ...
It represented Diocletian’s own triumph of 303 A.D. — the last triumph ever to climb the Capitoline with the silent Virgin along the Sacred Way. ‘As we were talking of mortality,’ Diocletian said, ‘I ...