Conceiving Companies: Joint Stock Politics in Victorian EnglandRoutledge, 2002 M09 26 - 320 páginas Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great importance to the history of this subject. Alborn takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company and Victorian railways, locating their origins in political and social practice. He offers a new perspective on an issue of great significance, not only for historians, but for political scientists and economists. |
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... tion against fraud to a failure to recognize the proper stance for regulating " natural monopolies " ( Foreman - Peck 1990 ; Foreman - Peck and Millward 1994 : 26-8 ) . Political agency , in these accounts , exists almost exclusively at ...
... tion against fraud to a failure to recognize the proper stance for regulating " natural monopolies " ( Foreman - Peck 1990 ; Foreman - Peck and Millward 1994 : 26-8 ) . Political agency , in these accounts , exists almost exclusively at ...
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... tion in which railways had put themselves owing to their past political actions . All this is not to deny that British Rail added to the inefficiency of rail transport , or that competition with road and air travel played a major role ...
... tion in which railways had put themselves owing to their past political actions . All this is not to deny that British Rail added to the inefficiency of rail transport , or that competition with road and air travel played a major role ...
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... to its role as a profit - seeking institu- tion . These contrasting outcomes were no different in kind from those distinguishing railways and banks in nineteenth - century Britain . 7 INTRODUCTION : COMPANIES AND STATES.
... to its role as a profit - seeking institu- tion . These contrasting outcomes were no different in kind from those distinguishing railways and banks in nineteenth - century Britain . 7 INTRODUCTION : COMPANIES AND STATES.
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... tion , culminating in 1858 when the India Office replaced the Company as chief administrative agency responsible for Indian military and civil rule . A generation ago , historians typically assumed this progress was the result of middle ...
... tion , culminating in 1858 when the India Office replaced the Company as chief administrative agency responsible for Indian military and civil rule . A generation ago , historians typically assumed this progress was the result of middle ...
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... tion in British public finance after 1700 can be described in terms of a shift from a mainly traditional to a mainly legal basis of political power . This transition was closely related to a shift from indirect to direct methods of ...
... tion in British public finance after 1700 can be described in terms of a shift from a mainly traditional to a mainly legal basis of political power . This transition was closely related to a shift from indirect to direct methods of ...
Contenido
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the Bank of England 17971875 | 53 |
Repoliticizing credit 184475 | 70 |
beyond the Bank of England | 79 |
the politics of jointstock | 85 |
the rise of deposit banking 184480 | 116 |
national banks 18801914 | 141 |
Early railways and the machinery of jointstock politics | 173 |
Railway republics and bureaucratic visions 186075 | 201 |
Railways against democracy 18751914 | 225 |
going public | 257 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Conceiving Companies: Joint-stock Politics in Victorian England Timothy L. Alborn Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Conceiving Companies: Joint Stock Politics in Victorian England Timothy L. Alborn Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Conceiving Companies: Joint Stock Politics in Victorian England Timothy L. Alborn Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |
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