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  • What was the Roman Empire’s GDP?

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    BBC Radio: What was the Roman Empire's GDP? While troubles in today's economy are creating headlines, one academic economist, Angus Maddison, has been devoted to compiling statistics on world economies on a slightly longer time horizon, since the year 1AD. He explains how you can work out the GDP of the Roman Empire. Maddison is…