Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- 1. Law and Long-Term Economic Change: An Editorial Introduction -- 2. The Evolution of Law: Political Foundations of Private Law in Medieval Europe and Japan -- 3. Law and Economy in Traditional China: A "Legal Origin"...

In this radical debunking of pervasive myths about how corporations and investors behave, UCLA professor and legal celebrity Lynn Stout shows how--contrary to entrenched belief--"shareholder primacy" is not mandated by corporate law and actually harms shareholders themselves.

Contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the US, including "Air Conditioning, Migration and Climate-related Wage and Rent Differentials"; "The Rail-Guided Vehicles Industry in Italy, 1861-1913: the Burden of the Evidence"; "English Banking and Payments before 1826"; and, "The...

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and...

In Corporate Dreams, James Hoopes combines a historian's careful eye with an insider's perspective on the business world. This provocative volume tracks changes in government economic policy, changes in public attitudes toward big business, and changes in how corporate executives view...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Economic Institutions -- Chapter 1 Introduction: An Overview of China's Economy -- 1.1. How did China Manage to Grow so Rapidly? -- 1.2. China's Economic Strength -- 1.3. Comparing China's Market Institutions with the US -- 1.4. China's Short-Term Economic...

Key Features:Scholarly but readableLooks critically at the Russian heritage without getting involved in the 'New Cold War'Written by someone who has lived in, and still travels frequently to, Russia/the Soviet Union.

Cover -- The Embedded Firm -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: corporate governance after the 'end of history': investigating the new 'great transformation' -- Thematic overview -- Theoretical perspectives -- Conclusion -- Part I Historical...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One The American Road to Capitalism -- I. Plantation-slavery -- Genovese and the 'irrationality' of slavery -- Plantations and markets -- II. Agrarian petty-commodity production -- Demythologising the family-farm --...