TY - BOOK
T1 - Industrializing English law
T2 - entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844
AU - Harris, Ron
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Business enterprises--Law and legislation--Great Britain--History
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SN - 0511011784
SN - 0511049048
SN - 0511151675
SN - 0511172818
SN - 051130207X
SN - 0511510136
SN - 0521662753
SN - 1107118611
SN - 1280420979
SN - 9780521662758
T3 - Political economy of institutions and decisions
BT - Industrializing English law
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge England
ER -