Going the distance: Eurasian trade and the rise of the business corporation, 1400-1700
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Содержание

  • Environment and trade
  • Theoretical frameworks for analyzing the development of institutions in interaction with their environment
  • Universal building blocks : itinerant traders, family firms, ships, and basic contracts
  • Varying organizational building blocks : three institutions, three paths of migration (sea loan, funduq/caravanserai, and commenda)
  • The commenda (features, origins, migration, modifications)
  • Family firms in three regions
  • Merchant networks
  • Trade by rulers and states
  • The origins of the business corporation
  • The Dutch East India Company
  • The English East India Company
  • Why did the corporation only evolve in Europe?