Hello and welcome to Brokonomics now in this Christmas episode I want to talk about Rome because that's a nice Christmasy subject in particular I want to go over the economics of Rome

Their their rise and their fall the only slight issue with that is that a lot of the time

there's stuff happening alongside the economic stuff and I'm a little bit

weak when it comes to the the non-financial stuff but luckily I know a man who knows

about that sort of stuff bow thank you very much coming on again you are no my

pleasure it is it is very kind of you to join me again on on brokenomics on this special Christmas

podcast.

No, any opportunity to woofel on about Rome?

Yes.

It's uh that's what I do.

As the meme goes, you know, just being a bloke,

you want to talk about Rome.

Yeah.

But I mean, it's sort of double-plus in your particular case, isn't it?

So.

It's one of those things, when you study it, you know formally

yet you know something you might not most people are not sort of first drawn to sort

of the social history or the economic history but you're sort of forced to do it.

Yeah.

Usually so yeah although I'm sort of you know more interested in the military

size of things and the political side of things

I do also know about the economy.

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