Slightly off-topic (but if we're looking back to the Roman Empire, I think on-topic lense might have trouble focusing. haha), this link reminds me of an interes

Slightly off-topic (but if we're looking back to the Roman Empire, I think on-topic lense might have trouble focusing. haha), this link reminds me of an interesting MOOC, Critical Perspectives on Management [1] on Coursera. And the first week starts with _The Lessons from Rome_: "In Ancient Rome, merchant organisations very similar to modern firms were critical to capitalising key markets and to solving serious logistical problems to enable a vibrant trading network across the Mediterranean, including, critically, supplying the city of Rome itself with the food its citizens needed to survive. We will examine the Roman grain market and the organisations that operated within that market to ask: what, exactly, is a firm? What led to the firm's evolution? And what is the issue of agency that a firm inevitably entails?" (from the syllabus) [1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/critical-management https://www.coursera.org/learn/critical-management