Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England

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Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England. By Timothy Alborn. New York: Routledge, 1998. ix + 297 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $90. ISBN 0-415-18079-1.

Modern polities and economies are structured around a small set of seemingly hard-and-fast cultural distinctions: public versus private, political versus economic, shareholder versus stakeholder. These are not merely ideological contrasts between the extremes of black and white, however, for they are manifested in concrete institutional arrangements and organizational structures. In Conceiving Companies, Timothy ...

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