Kubra wrote:command economy is probably not a good way to characterise antiquity economies. It tends to look like that mostly because our sources on the administrations (and likely the administrations involved) didn't give two shits about the mundane bits of the economy except in its limited ability to tax it.Kowani wrote:They’d have better luck bringing up the command economies of antiquity, since they’re more likely to get that one right-
Bronze age economies were probably a feudal/theocratic command economy, but by the classical era that was more or less done with.