“Although much modern commercial activity occurs through corporations incorporated by registration, general incorporation statutes were passed only in the middle of the nineteenth century. But, as Televantos points out, ‘much of the modernisation of production in leading sectors had already happened by [then]’ (p 2). To what extent, then, did English law facilitate trade before the advent of general incorporation and modern securities law? This is the central question addressed by Capitalism Before Corporations (p 3). In a well-written and interesting monograph, Televantos skilfully melds doctrinal legal history with analysis of contemporary political economic thought between 1790 to 1827 (the ‘Regency era’) …” (more)
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Rachel Leow, ‘Capitalism Before Corporations: The Morality of Business Associations and the Roots of Commercial Equity and Law. By Andreas Televantos. [Oxford University Press, 2020. xx + 200 pp. Hardback £80.00. ISBN 978-0-198-87034-0.]’, Cambridge Law Journal, volume 81, issue 1, March 2022, pp 202-205, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197322000150. Published online by Cambridge University Press 30 May.
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