Title Making the market : Victorian origins of corporate capitalism / Paul Johnson.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 255 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	Cambridge studies in economic history
	Cambridge studies in economic history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-249) and index.
Contents	Mammon's cradle -- Contracts, debts and debtors -- Coercion, custom and contract at work -- The incorporation of business -- The limitation of liability -- Corporate performance -- Shareholders, directors and promoters -- Mammon's conceit.
Summary	This study reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created in nineteenth-century Britain and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them.
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Subject	Corporations -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Corporations.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Capitalism.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Johnson, Paul (Paul A.). Making the market. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9786612630583
ISBN	9780521857833 (hardback)
	052185783X (hardback)
	9780511749797 (electronic book)
	0511749791 (electronic book)
	9780511744327 (electronic book)
	0511744323 (electronic book)
	9780511750533 (electronic book)
	0511750536 (electronic book)
Standard No.	9786612630583