Origins of Corporations
The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages
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Publication
2015 - Yale University Press
Language
English
Word Count
130,000 words, Guess
Page Count
520 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780300156485
- ISBN-100300156480
- Library of Congress Control Number2014043889
- OCLC Control Number894310502
- Better World Books9780300156485
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28558822M
Classifications
- LCCHD2855.S5313 2015
- LCCHD2855 .S5313 2015
Description
"Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives from a unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe called pariage, and a culture of strong property rights and municipal self-governance. Based on archival research, Sicard's 1952 thesis has been translated into English with an introduction that places the work in the context of new institutional economics and legal theory. It is an important contribution to research on the history and legal origins of the corporation"--
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