Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9780521857833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 266 str.

Paul Johnson

Opis

This innovative study reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them.

Recenzje

'Fascinating.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

1. Mammon's cradle; Part I. Individuals: 2. Contracts, debts and debtors; 3. Coercion, custom and contract at work; Part II. Institutions: 4. The incorporation of business; 5. The limitation of liability; 6. Corporate performance; Part III. Information: 7. Shareholders, directors and promoters; 8. Mammon's conceit; Bibliography.