Greatest ever economic expansion

[Dachs]

This seems to give suprisingly detailed accounts of Musa I's wealth and power...

Detail is not the same thing as plausibility. In fact, the two are frequently juxtaposed.

 

[Luckymoose]

Japan in the 60s and 70s was pretty damn fast.

 

[innonimatu]

Talk about having an inflated ego! Those two sounds like a bunch of wasteful pricks.

Well, that at least is a credible description of emperors!

 

[Tee Kay]

Woops, should have date checked. What about Mongolia from about 1210-1220?

Forgot about the Jin.

 

[Masada]

What Dachs said; also, economically it's also pretty darn suspect. Heck, even the article supports me on this.

The value of gold in Egypt decreased as much as 25 percent.

Quite how that, even assuming it's true, would ruin the economy is beyond me...

 

[ParkCungHee]

Not to mention, even if he had that kind of gold, the logistics involved would have been enornmous. First he would need convoys and convoys of gold, then, he would need security and people to transport that gold (and presumably well paid ones) in such numbers that it didn't provide a good target for anyone between Mali and Arabia.

 

[amadeus]

Japan in the 60s and 70s was pretty damn fast.

The fifties were faster, averaging about 10%.

 

[Karalysia]

Mughal Empire 1556 to 1566. Which actually counts as going from nothing, to well a whole lot. The Mughals had been driven into exile in Persia by Sher Shah Suri, it wasn't until the Second Battle of Panipat that the managed to recover the empire.

 

[Masada]

Not to mention, even if he had that kind of gold, the logistics involved would have been enornmous. First he would need convoys and convoys of gold, then, he would need security and people to transport that gold (and presumably well paid ones) in such numbers that it didn't provide a good target for anyone between Mali and Arabia.

I don't doubt he had gold - indeed, he might have had a great deal of it -, instead, my principal, objection stems from the results attributed to him spending that gold; it simply doesn't follow that he ruined the economy 'for four years'.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I don't doubt he did either. I'm doubting he bothered to bring that much gold to Egypt because it would have been rediculously expensive just to bring the gold to spend.

 

[Domen]

Economic expansion of the Roman Empire between ca. 27 BC and ca. 200 AD was pretty large.

 

[Dachs]

227 = 10?

 

[sophie]

Economic expansion of the Roman Empire between ca. 27 BC and ca. 200 AD was pretty large.

That's a pretty long period for a singular period of expansion, dontcha think? Especially considering a period of prolonged expansion as seen in the US in 1990-2000 was considered extraordinary...