Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / Paul Johnson.
Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / Paul Johnson.
Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / Paul Johnson.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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2010.
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N338.70941/7
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English
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x, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: 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. Shareholde...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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England
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2010.
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"Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the rules of thumb and the unspoken agreements that made this...
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Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / Paul Johnson.
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Cambridge studies in economic history.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 234-249.
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N338.70941/7
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052185783X (hardback)
9780521857833 (hardback)
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338.7094109034
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991017139659702626
