Making the Market - Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism

Informationen zum Autor Paul Johnson is Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe University, Melbourne. His previous publications include the three-volume Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (edited with Roderick Floud, 2004), Old Age: From Antiquity to Postmodernity (edited with Pat Thane, 1998) and Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change (1994). Klappentext This innovative study reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them. Zusammenfassung This innovative study analyses the origin of capitalist institutions such as limited companies! shares and stock markets! revealing how and why they were constructed. It explores the moral! economic and legal assumptions that supported this formal institutional structure! and which continue to shape the corporate economy of today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Johnson, Paul Jones Johnson, Heather Jones
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521857833
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85783-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599