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Re:What to read to understand how economists think by ClumsyPilot on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:35AM (#32620129)
it appears that yout descruption equally applies to ancient rome - property rights were neforced, including on people. Price mechanism was used.

Was ancient Rome capitalist?

Re:What to read to understand how economists think by fennecfoxen on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:43AM (#32638911)
Ancient Rome, famed for its commerce, had a variety of capitalist features, though with significantly less productive use of invested capital, as one would expect of a pre-industrial society. Most people, however, would consider Roman slavery with people-as-property to be an abrogation of property-rights-in-the-self rather than just enforcement.