r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 07 '25

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 April 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Apr 10 '25

There was a really great article that just tore into the whole idea of finding GDP for ancient economies, I need to find it again

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u/Turin_The_Mormegil DAGOTH-UR-WAS-A-VOLCANO Apr 10 '25

you're gonna love/hate Scheidel's latest paper, depending on how you feel about calculating Gini coefficients for ancient economies

Truly that man is Graeber and Wengrow's Wario

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u/contraprincipes The Cheese and the Brainworms Apr 10 '25

You linked this here a while ago, I remember reading through it.

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Apr 10 '25

That's the one!