Carruthers City of Capital

Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2210-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Bruce G. Carruthers is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. In 1998 he published Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States, and he has recently completed a textbook on economic sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carruthers, Bruce G.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Ch. 1 Introduction 3

Ch. 2 British Politics from 1672 to 1712 27

Ch. 3 Finance and State-Formation 53

Ch. 4 Britain in Comparative Perspective 92

Ch. 5 Financial Property Rights and the State 115

Ch. 6 Politics and the Joint-Stock Companies 137

Ch. 7 Trading on the London Stock Market 160

Ch. 8 Government Bonds and Political Bonds 195

Appendix 209

Notes 213

Bibliography 267

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce G. Carruthers is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. In 1998 he published Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States, and he has recently completed a textbook on economic sociology.