Re:List of prices of medieval items (2009)
by Xophmeister on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:15AM
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It would be interesting to see what those values are equivalent to in today's money. Of course, that might be pretty hard to estimate given they pre-date any central bank and presumably the notion of interest rates. Perhaps the variety of goods listed here could be used to estimate some semblance of a comparable RPI.
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Various people have worked on this kind of thing, such as https://measuringworth.com/gold/ "The Price of Gold, 1257 - Present", their broader purchasing power calculator https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/ or this big archive: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.h...
Classical studies have reasonably good models of the Roman economy, its inflation and comparative prices for goods and services.