Authentic Roman Coins of Diocletian (284-305AD)

Authentic Roman Coins of Aurelian (270-275AD)

Authentic Roman Coins of Probus (276-282AD)

Lucius Junius Brutus Capitoline Museum – Rome According to Roman tradition, Lucius Junius Brutus was the “Founder of the Republic.” Lucius served as Consul in 504 BC and is said to have taken a leading role in expelling King Thrquinius Superbus, the last of the Etruscan kings. Monetary System The coinage depicting Lucius Brutus was issued by […]

THE SLAVE WARS The several serious slave wars that began their course at this time were provoked, first, by the sheer scale of the arrival of slaves, to start with mostly prisoners of war, and then purchased in markets like that of Delos. Estimates of the number of slaves in Italy during the second- first […]

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Frank William Taussig (1839-1940) Frank William Taussig was an American economist, spent his academic life teaching at Harvard. Between 1917 and 1919 he chaired the US Tariffs Commission. Important books are Tariff History of the United States (1888), Wages and Capital (1896), Principles of Economics (1911), and International Trade. His work shows influences from Ricardo […]

Johann Heinrich von Thuenen 1783-1850 Johann Heinrich von Thuenen was a German economist whose theories stemmed from a practical background of farmer and landowner his main contribution to economics is his work Der Isolierte Staat in Beziehung Auf Landwirtschaft und Nationaloekonomie (1826-63) in which he analyzed factors influencing the profitable locations of industries. His theory […]

Jan Tinbergen 1903-1994 Jan Tinbergen was an Dutch economist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize for Economics with Ranger Frisch. Tinbergen had made outstanding contributions to econometrics. In the 1930’s he developed models for demand management useful in avoiding depressions and counteracting the problem of unemployment. More recently Tinbergen has analyzed the economic problems of […]