Subjects
The History of Corporate Finance:
Developments of Anglo-American Securities Markets, Financial Practices, Theories and Laws
Editor: Robert E Wright
Advisory Editor: Richard Sylla
978 1 85196 749 0: 234x156mm: £595.00/$1050.00
This is a pioneering collection of primary resource texts gathered from the archives of corporate history. Until now corporate finance has been neglected as an area of historical study, and this set is the first scholarly edition devoted to the subject. The History of Corporate Finance contains important but difficult-to-find primary research texts regarding two centuries of the development of enterprise in the United States and Great Britain.
The new collection is designed to help scholars, lawyers, financial managers, and public policymakers to investigate the historical background of important issues in contemporary corporate finance, including corporate structure and governance, securities issuance, direct and indirect finance and fraud detection.
- All texts are reproduced in high quality facsimile
- Substantial general introduction of 16,000 words
- Consolidated index
Contents
Volume 1: Development of Securities Markets
South Sea Company, Pursuant to the Direction in Her Majestys Commission (1711); Thomas Fortune, An Epitome of the Stocks and Publick Funds (1796); Thomas Fortune and D. Morier Evans, Fortune’s Epitome of the Stocks & Public Funds, English, Foreign & American (1850); Robert Lucas Nash, A Short Enquiry Into the Profitable Nature of Our Investments (1881)
Volume 2: Public Policy
Charles Fenn and Robert Lucas Nash, Fenn’s Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds, Debts and Revenues of All Nations (1893); [Thomas Papillion], The-East-India Trade: A Most Profitable Trade to the Kingdom (1677); [John Pollexfen], A Discourse of Trade, Coyn and Paper Credit (1697); The American Jurist, ‘Manufacturing Corporations’ (1829); William Hawes, Observations on Limited and Unlimited Liability (1854)
Volume 3: Limited Liability
David Gibbons, The Limited Liability Act. To Which are Added, The Joint Stock Companies Acts (1858–9); Loftus Fitz-Wygram, Limited Liability Made Practical. Reduction of Capital of Companies and the Subdivision of Shares (1867); [John Playford], Vade Mecum, Or the Necessary Pocket Companion (1679)
Volume 4: Corporate Finance in Practice
[George Rae], The Internal Management of a Country Bank: In a Series of Letters (1850) ; Robert Arthur Ward, A Treatise on Investments: Being a Popular Exposition of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Each Kind of Investment (1852)
Volume 5: Corporate Finance in Theory
John Laing, The Theory of Business for Busy Men (1868); Arthur Crump, The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation (1874)
Volume 6: Corporate Finance in Theory (cont.)
Arthur Ellis, The Rationale of Market Fluctuations (1879); Thomas L Greene, Corporation Finance: A Study (1898); Alfred Marshall, Industry and Trade: A Study of Industrial Technique and Business Organization
Reviews
'This six-volume set contains a treasure trove of valuable documents...every professor at every major research university should make certain that their library acquires these six volumes, irrespective of the cost. These documents will prove valuable to scholars with an interest in the history of financial services and the advancement of capitalistic systems for decades to come - nay, for centuries and beyond. Trust me on this one. This collection is unique and a must buy for every serious, first-rate library.'
– Edwin J Perkins, Enterprise and Society