Edward Gibbon showed how the increasing costs and declining benefits of conquest helped bring down the Roman empire, but he didnt carefully identify who reaped the benefits and bore the costs. Recent research and modern economic tools can fill the missing gap in Gibbons analysis and illuminate Romes expansion and civil wars.
|Other Independent Review articles by Gary M. Pecquet|
|Fall 2010||The Shaping of a Future President's Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at The Hopkins|
|Winter 2009||Texas Treasury Notes after the Compromise of 1850|
|Fall 2006||Texas Treasury Notes and the Election of 1844|