Why Empires Fall by Peter Heather and John Rapley

Why Empires Fall by Peter Heather and John Rapley

A historian of late Rome and a political economist argue that the usual story about imperial decline is wrong. Rome did not fall because of decadence or moral rot; it fell because its own success developed the periphery until the periphery could compete.

They then run the same analysis on the modern West — the growth it enabled elsewhere, the shift of manufacturing, the demographic arithmetic, and the politics of a population that expected the good years to continue. The argument is that decline is not collapse, and that Rome's real mistake was refusing to adapt to a world it had itself created.

A short, provocative book that has been argued about in every serious review section.

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