Author by: Emily Erikson Language: en Publisher by: Emerald Group Publishing Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 23 Total Download: 110 File Size: 41,6 Mb Description: This volume covers the evolution of the chartered company; contributions employ comparative methods, archival research, case studies, statistical analyses, computational models, network analyses, and new theoretical conceptualizations to map out the complex interactions that took place between state and commercial actors across the globe. Author by: Bruce R. Scott Language: en Publisher by: Springer Science & Business Media Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 71 Total Download: 629 File Size: 48,5 Mb Description: Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating simultaneously in partially distinct domains, these systems rely on indirect governance through regulated competition to coordinate actors; inevitably, these systems influence and transform each other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets in favor of a three-level system, a model which recognizes that markets are administered by regulators through institutions and governed by a political authority with the power to regulate behavior, punish transgressors, and redesign institutions. This system's emergence required the sovereign to relinquish some power in order to release the energies of economic actors. Rather than spreading through an unguided natural process like trade, capitalism emerged where competitive pressures forced political authorities to take risks in order to achieve increased revenues by permitting markets for land, labor, and capital. Author by: Michael Zakim Language: en Publisher by: University of Chicago Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 34 Total Download: 259 File Size: 41,8 Mb Description: Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history. Author by: Terry L. Besser Language: en Publisher by: Greenwood Publishing Group Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 96 Total Download: 781 File Size: 52,5 Mb Description: The common wisdom that business contributions to the common good are counterproductive in the new competitive global marketplace does not hold up to empirical research. Hercules 16/12 firewire drivers. In fact, doing good is good for business. ![]() FERNAND BRAUDEL AND GLOBAL HISTORY1 The Life and the Man Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) was one of the great historians of the twentieth century. He published his great work on The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II in 1949. His other major later work, the three volumes of Civilization and Capitalism, was published in 1979. In her exhaustive survey of the Iowa business community, Besser discovered that business owners and managers often act out of a sense of community spirit and a certain obligation to better the common good. She demonstrates that, while the increasingly globalized economy has encouraged a number of large corporations to become freewheelers, the vast majority of companies are firmly rooted in place and look at their locales with more than just a utilitarian eye. Author by: Fernand Braudel Language: en Publisher by: Univ of California Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 20 Total Download: 373 File Size: 48,7 Mb Description: By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns. Author by: C.
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