From The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter |
"The commonwealth was not yet lost in Tiberius's days, but it was already doomed and Rome knew it. The fundamental trouble could not be cured. In Italy, labor could not support life..." - Vladimir Simkhovitch, "Rome's Fall Reconsidered"
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See also the Toynbee and Quigley quotes at ULC, 1955-57, newsworthy inflation, and life as we know it.
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