Note 915 — Chapter XIII · THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE (A) MONEY
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
The idea of the Firm took shape even in Late Gothic times as “ratio” [hence the modern French phrase “raison sociale”—Tr.] or “negotiatio.” It is impossible to render it exactly in a Classical language. Negotium meant for the Romans a concrete process, a “deal” and not a “business.”