Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Utility functions: Consumption -- Chapter 3: Growth in Business -- Chapter 4: Certification of Sustainability -- Chapter 5: Corporate Implementation and Business forms -- Chapter 6: Investment Implementation.

This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they controlled as driving...