Chartering capitalism : organizing markets, states, and publics

Chartering capitalism : organizing markets, states, and publics / edited by Emily Erickson.

Chartered companies, the organizational precursors to modern multinationals, acted as the primary vehicles behind the expansion of European political and economic hegemony, and were thus central to the creation of modern global political and economic institutions, and international trade and relatio...

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Other Authors: Erikson, Emily (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Political power and social theory ; v. 29.
Subjects:
Capitalism > Europe > Congresses.
Commercial associations > Europe > Congresses.
Social theory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Capitalism
Commercial associations
Europe
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : new forms of organization and the coordination of political and commercial actors / Emily Erikson, Valentina Assenova
  • The ideology of the imperial corporation : "informal" empire revisited / Philip J. Stern
  • Principal agent relations and the decline of the Royal African Company / Matthew Norton
  • Raisins d'Etat : trade, politics and diplomacy in the history of the Levant Company / Martin Devecka
  • Colonial institutions and trade patterns / Emily Erikson, Sampsa Samila
  • Private trade and monopoly structures : the East India Companies and the commodity trade to Europe in the eighteenth century / Maxine Berg [and others]
  • A closed elite? Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers and the abolition of slave trading / Timo Böhm, Henning Hillmann
  • Own, rent, or rent-seek? Vertical integration in historical chartered monopolies / Santhi Hejeebu
  • Bottlenecks and East Indies Companies : modeling the geography of agency in mercantilist enterprises / Julia Adams, Chris Shugrue
  • Scientists as free riders : natural resource exploration and new product discovery in the Dutch East India Company / Matthew Sargent
  • An ancient scheme : the Mississippi Company, Machiavelli and the Casa di San Giorgio, (1407-1720) / Carlo Taviani
  • "A state in disguise of a merchant?" The English East India Company as a strategic action field, ca. 1763-1834 / Nicholas Wilson.

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