Kim Bowes on the economic lives of Rome's ninety percent

The following excerpt from the description includes a list of the questions and topics which are discussed in this interview:

Tyler and Kim discuss what would surprise a modern visitor to a Roman elite home, what early Roman Christianity actually looked like on the ground, why Romans never developed formal economic reasoning, what decentralized money-lending reveals about the Roman state, whether there were anything like forward markets, why Romans continued to use coins even as the empire debased them, the economics of Roman slavery, whether Roman recipes taste any good, the Romans as hyper-scalers rather than inventors, what Rome made of China and Egypt, why Kim’s not a fan of the Vesuvius challenge, the practicalities of landscape archaeology, how a vast belt of factories along the Tiber Valley went undiscovered until twenty years ago, where to go on a three-week tour of the Roman Empire, what she thinks is ultimately behind Rome’s unraveling, and much more.

I'm sharing it here because I genuinely hadn't considered the intersection of economics and Rome, e.g. the fact that there aren't any great economic thinkers from that era. It was also so compelling that I've added the guest's book to my reading list.