Industrializing English law : entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844
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Industrializing English law : entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844
（Political economy of institutions and decisions）
Cambridge University Press, 2010, c2000
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Originally published: 2000
"First paperback edition 2010"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 301-321
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Between the passage of the Bubble Act in 1720 and the sweeping reforms of the General Incorporation Act of 1844, the legal framework of business organization in England remained remarkably stagnant despite the profound economic and structural changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution. Originally published in 2000, this book analyzes why this discrepancy occurred, especially when other nations of that time, whose economies were far less developed, were evolving more permissive laws of business organization. Employing extensive primary source archival material, Ron Harris shows how the institutional development of major forms of business organization - the business corporation, the partnership, the trust, the unincorporated joint-stock company - evolved and how English law finally took account of these developments.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The legal framework
- Part I. Before 1720: 2. The pre-1720 business corporation
- 3. The Bubble Act, its passage and its effects
- Part II. 1721-1810: 4. Two distinct paths of organizational development: transport and insurance
- 5. The joint-stock business corporation
- 6. Trusts, partnerships, and the unincorporated company
- 7. The progress of the joint-stock organization
- Part III. 1800-44: 8. The attitudes of the business community
- 9. The joint-stock company in court
- 10. The joint-stock company in parliament.
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