Talk:Economy of the Ming dynasty

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Did you know... that the GDP of the Ming Dynasty was 31 percent of the world's GDP, a percentage which is relatively higher than the GDP of the United States in 1997?

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Need the help from other editors

Thanks for your invitation user Teeninvestor. I think we need help from other more able editors, especially PericlesofAthens and Madalibi. Arilang ^talk 17:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ming's costly projects

Building the Great Wall
Building the Beijing royal palace
Engaged in many large scale wars, for example Imjin War
Building hundreds of ocean going ships for Zheng He's seven oversea trips.

All the above projects cost a lot of money. We need to find out where the cash came from. Arilang ^talk 17:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they didn't just employ coin cash, but also things that could be commuted to coin cash, like taxed grain gathered from farming peasants (before silver was made a standard taxable item). In any case, this article relies too much on one source. However, I'm sure Teeninvestor is far from done and plans to employ a lot more sources as this article grows and matures.--Pericles of Athens^Talk 18:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]