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Rome Was Destroyed by Excessive Government ... ?
#1
I wonder what Forum members will make of this article. The author cites lots of sources, but he has clearly not read Goldsworthy's book, How Rome Fell.

It seems that Bartlett is using the present to inform the past.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj14n2/cj14n2-7.pdf

:?

Narukami
David Reinke
Burbank CA
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#2
I ran across that some time ago while researching how an "open-door", pro-immigration policy helped Rome grow. Some of his points are sound, while others are completely wrong, such as the monetisation of the Roman economy. I think this is a case where the author started with conclusions and tried to find reasons to justify them.

If you look at which publications have cited this article you get an idea of how it has been received.
David J. Cord
www.davidcord.com
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#3
We are all sometimes guilty of projecting our views on the ancients, but it's one thing to do it in conversation, and another to publish our opinons as if they were fact. Isn't that supposed to be a "no-no" in the Historian Department?
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)

Saepe veritas est dura.
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