from Hacker News

Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? (2022)

by ez_mmk on 1/19/24, 9:15 PM with 1 comments

  • by bell-cot on 1/19/24, 9:35 PM

    Extremely convenient summary, from the first real paragraph of the article:

    > As we’ll see, the Roman Empire was never close to an industrial revolution – a great many of the preconditions were missing – but the idea that it might have been on the cusp of being something like a modern economy did once have its day in the scholarship.

    (In theory, the HN title should include "(2022)". In practice - how much has the Roman Empire changed since 2022?)