Is market economy and its environmental impacts with us already since Antiquity

”Some farmers in archaic and classic Greece weren’t choosing which crops to plant based on local nutritional needs. Their decisions on production and distribution were apparently being driven by demand for exports, say Adam Izdebski of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and colleagues, in a paper published in the November edition of The Economic Journal (Oxford University Press).