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100	1		_aJohnson, Paul, _q(Paul A.) _dauthor _9144226
245	1	0	_aMaking the market : _bVictorian origins of corporate capitalism / _cPaul Johnson.
260			_aCambridge, UK ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_ax, 255 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aCambridge studies in economic history
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 234-249) and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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. Shareholders, directors and promoters; 8. Mammon's conceit; Bibliography.
520			_a"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 market structure work. This innovative study provides the first integrated analysis of the origin of these formative capitalist institutions, and reveals why they were conceived and how they were constructed. It explores the moral, economic and legal assumptions that supported this formal institutional structure, and which continue to shape the corporate economy of today. Tracing the institutional growth of the corporate economy in Victorian Britain and demonstrating that many of the perceived problems of modern capitalism - financial fraud, reckless speculation, excessive remuneration - have clear historical precedents, this is a major contribution to the economic history of modern Britain"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aCorporations _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century. _9144227
650		0	_aCapitalism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century. _9144228
830		0	_aCambridge studies in economic history. _9144229
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