Enterprising America : Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective / / William J. Collins, Robert A. Margo

• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 338.0973
• Soggetto topico: Business enterprises - United States - History; Business enterprises - United States - Finance - History; Commercial credit - United States - History; Bank loans - United States - History
• Soggetto non controllato: Bankruptcy; Banks; Governance; Growth; Incorporation; Manufacturing; Plantations; Scale economies
• Persona (resp. second.): CollinsWilliam J.; MargoRobert A.
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2015.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance -- 2. Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth- Century Massachusetts -- 3. The Evolution of Bank Boards of Directors in New York, 1840‒1950 -- 4. Did Railroads Make Antebellum US Banks More Sound? -- 5. Sources of Credit and the Extent of the Credit Market -- 6. Economies of Scale in Nineteenth- Century American Manufacturing Revisited -- 7 Were Antebellum Cotton Plantations Factories in the Field? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world's most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the rules for their organization and operation. To better understand the historical processes central to American economic development, Enterprising America brings together contributors who address the economic behavior of American firms and financial institutions-and the associated legal institutions that shaped their behavior-throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collectively, the contributions provide an account of the ways in which businesses, banks, and credit markets promoted America's extraordinary economic growth. Among the topics that emerge are the rise of incorporation and its connection to factory production in manufacturing, the organization and operation of large cotton plantations in comparison with factories, the regulation and governance of banks, the transportation revolution's influence on bank stability and survival, and the emergence of long-distance credit in the context of an economy that was growing rapidly and becoming increasingly integrated across space.
• Titolo autorizzato: Enterprising America
• ISBN: 0-226-26176-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910861032503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.