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Author: John Hooper Hartnoll
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: "Utrecht" (Insurance Company)
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 566
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Taylor
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0861933230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe growth of joint-stock business in Victorian Britain re-evaluated, showing in particular the resistance to it. Winner of the Economic History Society's Best First Monograph award 2009 The emergence of the joint-stock company in nineteenth-century Britain was a culture shock for many Victorians. Though the home of the industrialrevolution, the nation's economy was dominated by the private partnership, seen as the most efficient as well as the most ethical form of business organisation. The large, impersonal company and the rampant speculation it was thought to encourage were viewed with suspicion and downright hostility. This book argues that the existing historiography understates society's resistance to joint-stock enterprise; it employs an eclectic range of sources, fromnewspapers and parliamentary papers to cartoons, novels and plays, to unearth this forgotten economic debate. It explores how the legal system was gradually restructured to facilitate joint-stock enterprise, a process culminatingin the limited liability legislation of the mid-1850s. This has typically been interpreted as evidence for the emergence of new, positive attitudes to speculation and economic growth, but the book demonstrates how traditional outlooks continued to influence legislation, and the way in which economic reforms were driven by political agendas. It shows how debates on the economic culture of nineteenth-century Britain are strikingly relevant to current questions over the ethics of multinational corporations. James Taylor is Senior Lecturer in British History at Lancaster University.
Author: Robin Pearson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1040240313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm, this two-part collection of rare texts covers the period 1700-1850. Each part features an introduction which provides an overview of the development of the British and American business corporation in their respective periods and places it in its wider contexts.
Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain). Library
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 592
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 594
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Statistical Society (Great Britain). Library
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 598
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P.L. Cottrell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1136597425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment. An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the growth and development of the British economy in one of its most dramatic phases. Philip Cottrell has written an impressively documented full-scale survey of this crucial period, discussing finance in the context of sweeping reforms of company law, unprecedented technological change and economic expansion, and the institutional effects of all of these. He is primarily concerned with English manufacturing industry but frequently refers, by way of comparison, to extractive industry, Scottish and Welsh developments and the economies of other West European countries. As well as providing a comprehensive overview, the book pays particular attention to coal, iron and textiles amongst the industries and, at the level of organization, to the emergence of the joint stock limited liability company and its gradual adoption by industrialists. The relationship between commercial banks and manufacturing receives detailed consideration and the role of internally accumulated funds and trade credit is discussed. this classic book was first published in 1980.
Author: Phillip Cottrell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1136301399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis and the previous volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International Financial Society this book provides an unrivalled record of the development of the modern banking industry.
Author: Erik Reinert
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1839982993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOther Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today. Erik S. Reinert argues through essays ranging from 1994 to 2020 that neo-classical economics damages developing countries, mostly via adherence to the theory of comparative advantage. Based on a long intellectual tradition, started by the Italian economists Giovanni Botero (1589) and Antonio Serra (1613), Reinert shows that the country which trades increasing returns goods – e.g. high-end manufacture – has advantages over the country which trades diminishing returns goods – e.g. commodities. This has important implications for today’s development strategies that, Reinert argues, should be seen as industrial strategies.
