Industrializing English law : entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844
"Legal stasis in the face of rapid economic change poses serious challenges to deterministic and functional interpretations in the theory of law, institutions, and economic performance. This book explores a particularly important example: the slow and contradictory development in the law of business organization in England during the critical phase of the Industrial Revolution. Based on extensive primary source research, Ron Harris shows how the institutional development of major forms of business organization - the business corporation, the partnership, the trust, the unincorporated company - evolved during this period. He also demonstrates how this slow and peculiar path of legal change interacted with and affected the practice of individual entrepreneurs and the transformation of the English economy."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 2000
History
xvi, 331 pages ; 24 cm
9780521662758, 0521662753
41445867
1. The Legal Framework
pt. I. Before 1720
2. The Pre-1720 Business Corporation
3. The Bubble Act, Its Passage, and Its Effects
pt. 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
pt. III. 1800-1844
8. The Attitudes of the Business Community
9. The Joint-Stock Company in Court
10. The Joint-Stock Company in Parliament
App. 1. The Rise and Decline of the Major Trading Corporations
App. 2. Capital of Joint-Stock Companies Circa 1810