What can we learn from history?
I recently finished an excellent book about the history of Rome that covers a 1,000 years of it's history from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria.
As Beard commented - there is "no simple list of dos and don’ts" but it is hard to read about Rome's history without drawing parallels to some of the issues we face today - political polarisation, democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility, and challenges in the middle east.
Beard gives a flavour of the book in her posting below.
great book, well worth the read.
Global Head, Quantitative R&D, ADIA
8 年Nice post. I completely agree - history teaches us a lot. I was using an example of Emperor Augustus introducing military pensions, and what came out of it, in my most recent Risk Magazine column about failures of the modern pension system All the best, Alex