Conceiving Companies

Download or read book Conceiving Companies written by Timothy L. Alborn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great importance to the history of this subject. Alborn takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company and Victorian railways, locating their origins in political and social practice. He offers a new perspective on an issue of great significance, not only for historians, but for political scientists and economists.