Skyrocketing prices are an age-old problem. Here’s how Roman emperors battled runaway inflation
- Written by Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University

Therefore, who would not know that effrontery hijacks the public interest? […] It ratchets up the prices of things for sale, not fourfold or eightfold but so much that the human tongue’s reckoning cannot untangle what to call the accounting and the deed!
The language is different but this edict on...