"The Global Economy - a Concise History traces the history of global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East, as well as the...

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The relation between large blockholders and minorities is a notoriously problematical one, particularly when the controlling shareholder is the government. This article explores this issue, referring to the history of corporate governance practices at <italic>L'Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale</italic>...