Chartering Capitalism : Organizing Markets, States, and Publics

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Political Power and Social Theory ; v.29

Political Power and Social Theory Ser ; v.29

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Front Cover; Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Series Editor's Introduction; Introduction: New Forms of Organization and the Coordination of Political and Commercial Actors; The Significance of the Chartered Companies; Existing Research; References; The Ideology of the Imperial Corporation: "Informal" Empire Revisited; The Early Modern Corporate Empire: Practice and Theory; Informal Corporate Empire in the Nineteenth Century

"Formal" Corporate Empire: The Case of George GoldieConclusion: Corporate Empires; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Principal Agent Relations and the Decline of the Royal African Company; The Royal African Company, its Origins, its Decline; The Failure of the RAC; Principal Agent Relations, Quiet and Noisy; Meaning Games; Nested Agency Relations; Conclusion; Notes; References; Raisins d'Etat: Trade, Politics, and Diplomacy in the History of the Levant Company; A Marriage of Convenience: The Embassy and the Currant Trade in the Sixteenth Century

"Mere Merchants": Prestige and Diplomatic Competition in IstanbulA Peaceable Trade: Failures of the Levant Company and Insufficiency of "Economic" Means; Conclusions; Notes; References; Colonial Institutions and Trade Patterns; Colonialism and Economic Development; Trade Dynamics; The "Trade" Period, 1601-1757; The "Colonial" Period, 1757-1835; Data; Dependent Variable; Independent Variable; Control Variables; Descriptive Analysis; The Model; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References

Private Trade and Monopoly Structures: The East India Companies and the Commodity Trade to Europe in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Size of the East India Company Trade; Company Organization; Regulations on Private Trade; The China Trade and Specific Commodities; Private Trade and Company Flexibility; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix: European East India company private trade allowances; General Regulations; Examples of Actual Permissions on Specific Company Ships; A Closed Elite? Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers and the Abolition of Slave Trading; Data Sources

Local Politics and Elite ClosureThe Fragmented Network of the Slave Traders; Alternative Sources of Cohesion; Success of the Abolitionist Campaign; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Own, Rent, or Rent-Seek?: Vertical Integration in Historical Chartered Monopolies; The Companies and Their Hire versus Own Patterns; Competitive Trading Environments; Non-Rent-Seeking Explanations; Asset Specificity and Specific Relationships; Relationship-Specific Investments before Departure; Relationship-Specific Investments after Departure; Costly Monitoring; Capacity Utilization

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