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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1997.
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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.