Life and Death of Empires

We invite you to the lecture “Life and Death of Empires: From Triumph to Collapse.”

The Akkadian and Persian, Roman and Byzantine, British and Spanish — once these were mighty empires. What remains of their greatness, and have empires truly ceased to exist, or have they simply taken on new names?

In his new lecture, economist Pavel Usanov will talk about how the economies of the most influential powers were structured, what went wrong, and why they ceased to exist. What has humanity inherited from them, and why does the “fall of the Roman Empire” remain such an important historical problem even today?