Researchers Build Economic Complexity Map of the Roman Empire from Latin Inscriptions
A team including Petra Heřmánková, Matteo Mazzamurro, Tom Brughmans and the author published a study in npj Complexity applying economic complexity analysis to the Roman Empire. The work draws on LIST, a large dataset of Latin inscriptions with geographic coordinates and transcribed text, using professions mentioned in funerary and honorific inscriptions as proxies for economic activity across locations.