Routledge经济史研究丛书

9、维多利亚时代英格兰的股份公司(Conceiving Companies--Joint-stock Politics in Victorian England)

1998年第1版

作者：

Timothy L.Alborn is Associate Professor of History and Social Studies at
Harvard University.


共308页

内容简介：

Since the early twentieth century, the joint-stock company and the state have
stood together as exemplars of modern bureaucratic institutions. For at least
as long, that co-existence has been uncomfortable, as companies and states
have wound their way through an inconclusive cycle of proposals to regulate,
deregulate, or otherwise adjust the boundaries between “private” and
“public” spheres. Conceiving Companies offers a new perspective on the
rise of large-scale companies in Victorian England by locating their origins
in political and social practice. In the process, it challenges the clear division
between the state and the market that has long informed regulatory theory
and policy.

The study is divided into three sections, each on a different facet of “jointstock
politics.” The first section surveys the East India Company and the
Bank of England, two expressly political institutions which needed to adjust
to new tendencies in the nineteenth century to view companies as more
properly part of the market. The second locates England’s early joint-stock
banks in the voluntarist and regionalist political culture of the 1830s, then
traces their departure from these origins through the end of the century. The
final section argues that Victorian railways, in shielding themselves from state
intervention, neglected their public relations with creditors, customers, and
workers, and suffered economically as a result.

Conceiving Companies offers a new perspective on an issue of great
significance, not only for historians, but for political scientists and
economists.

目录：

1 Introduction: companies and states

Part I Sovereign companies

2 Democratic despot: the East India Company, 1783–1858
Reform from within, 1783–1833
Between corruption and deception, 1833–58

3 Reluctant sovereign: the Bank of England, 1797–1875
Gold and democracy, 1797–1844
Repoliticizing credit, 1844–75
Unchartered territory: beyond the Bank of England

Part II Joint-stock banks

4 “Representatives of the people”: the politics of joint-stock banking, 1826–44
Institutional contexts of English joint-stock banking, 1760–1840
The rise of democratic banking, 1825–36
Banking legislation and administrative reform

5 Shifting gears: the rise of deposit banking, 1844–80
After democracy: banks, bills, and crisis, 1844–66
A second national debt: bank deposits and shareholder liability

6 “Doing enormous things”: national banks, 1880–1914
The amalgamation movement
Deposits and democracy: the savings bank debate, 1890–1910
Conclusion: local power and the limits of joint-stock politics

Part III Railways

7 Early railways and the machinery of joint-stock politics
The mechanization of joint-stock politics
An uneasy peace: railway shareholders and City finance

8 Railway republics and bureaucratic visions, 1860–75
Shareholder activism and railway finance
A state guarantee: the fad of nationalization

9 Railways against democracy, 1875–1914

10 Conclusion: going public

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