Rome's Economic Revolution

(Content list below) 15 January 2015: In the first of the History of Capitalism’s 2015 lectures, Philip Kay discussed research into how the expansion of credit contributed to the collapse of the Roman Republic. Kay is Head of Asia, City Financial, and author of the book 'Rome's Economic Revolution'. Introduction by Hywel Williams, Senior Fellow, Legatum Institute. More information: http://www.li.com/events/rome-s-economic-revolution List of Content 00:02:47 - About Philip Kay 00:05:30 - Roman Empire in 218 BC 00:06:46 - Asia Provincia and Pontus 00:08:46 - Cicero De Imperio Cnaei Pompeii 19 00:09:48 - Cicero Updated 00:10:33 - Roman bronze coins 00:12:45 - Map of New World 00:15:18 - Indemnities and booty 00:18:17 - Polybius 00:19:21 - Greenland lead pollution levels 00:20:50 - Receipts of silver 00:21:32 - Roman silver coins in circulation 00:22:44 - The Roman Banker relief 00:25:33 - Plautus Persa 433-6 00:26:22 - Plautus Curculio 271-79 00:29:26 - Pliny the Elder 00:30:18 - Aqua Marcia 00:31:11 - Roads 00:33:12 - Mediterranean shipwrecks 00:34:34 - Types of amphorae 00:37:43 - Map of movement of European silver 00:39:13 - Delos 00:39:56 - Delos in its geographical context 00:40:48 - The bankers on Delos 00:41:31 - Estimated population 00:42:40 - Summary 00:45:28 - Finally