The Origins of Company Law

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The Origins of Company Law is written by Victoria Barnes and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1509964487 (ISBN 10) and 9781509964482 (ISBN 13).

"This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history. It brings together Anglo-American scholarship that will not only shed greater light on the history of company law, but also influence contemporary debates about our ability to return to, or learn from, the past. The book showcases antecedents of present debates, reveals regulatory lessons from previous legal regimes, identifies instances of path dependency, unpicks pivotal legal events, and explains drivers for legal change. The chapters reevaluate the history of company law, and will inform the law-making and policy-making agenda"--