We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe’s civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form...

We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe's civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form...

British general incorporation law granted companies an extraordinary degree of contractual freedom to craft their own governance rules. It provided companies with a default set of articles of association, but incorporators were free to reject any part or all of the model and write their own...

Chapter 1.Tourism, hotel industry and banking development : the Lake Geneva case at the beginning of the 20th Century, by Cédric Humair - University of Lausanne (Switzerland) -- Chapter 2. Hotels during Wartime and Transitions to Peace: Resilience and Repurposing in Britain, 1914-1922, by Kevin...