PUGNARE: Economic Success and Failure

What is one of the best ways to successfully predict the future? Winston Churchill believed that the further back you look, the further forward you are likely to see. This intriguing book is testimony to this idea. It looks back two thousand years to the Roman Empire to help us see into our own future.

The causes of the triumphs and disasters of our time are much the same as those of the Roman Empire. The Romans were people just like us and the wisest of their great men and women were as wise as the best of ours. Unfortunately, the most foolish of theirs were just as foolish as the worst of ours.

Pugnare is the first historical account of the Roman Empire written from a practical business perspective. It is also about people, because business is about people. We can learn a lot from their behaviour, from their successes and failures.