Rome's Economic Revolution

(Content list below) 15 January 2015: In the first of the History of Capitalism’s 2015 lectures, Philip Kay discussed research into how the expansion of credit contributed to the collapse of the Roman Republic. Kay is Head of Asia, City Financial, and author of the book 'Rome's Economic Revolution'. Introduction by Hywel Williams, Senior Fellow, Legatum Institute. More information: www.li.com/even...
List of Content
00:02:47 - About Philip Kay
00:05:30 - Roman Empire in 218 BC
00:06:46 - Asia Provincia and Pontus
00:08:46 - Cicero De Imperio Cnaei Pompeii 19
00:09:48 - Cicero Updated
00:10:33 - Roman bronze coins
00:12:45 - Map of New World
00:15:18 - Indemnities and booty
00:18:17 - Polybius
00:19:21 - Greenland lead pollution levels
00:20:50 - Receipts of silver
00:21:32 - Roman silver coins in circulation
00:22:44 - The Roman Banker relief
00:25:33 - Plautus Persa 433-6
00:26:22 - Plautus Curculio 271-79
00:29:26 - Pliny the Elder
00:30:18 - Aqua Marcia
00:31:11 - Roads
00:33:12 - Mediterranean shipwrecks
00:34:34 - Types of amphorae
00:37:43 - Map of movement of European silver
00:39:13 - Delos
00:39:56 - Delos in its geographical context
00:40:48 - The bankers on Delos
00:41:31 - Estimated population
00:42:40 - Summary
00:45:28 - Finally