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Socializing Capital : The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America /

The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals and then how it germinated within a system of stock markets, brokerage houses, and investment banks into a mechanism for the organization of ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roy, William G., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A quantitative test of efficiency theory
  • The corporation as public and private enterprise
  • Railroads: the corporation's institutional wellspring
  • Auxiliary institutions: the stock market, investment banking, and brokers
  • Statutory corporate law, 1880-1913
  • Prelude to a revolution
  • American industry incorporates
  • Conclusion: a political sociology of the large corporation.