The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800–1917

A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy

Thomas C. Owen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2002
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-52944-0 (ISBN)

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This study analyses the legal framework imposed on corporations by the imperial Russian Government. It stresses the dual nature of the bureaucracy's policy toward modern capitalist enterprise: encouragement for the sake of economic development, and regimentation in the interest of maintaining autocratic control. By illuminating the political nature of the autocracy's economic agenda, Professor Owen seeks to explain why Russian corporate law became increasingly restrictive toward the end of the imperial period. Attention is also given to the practices of Russian capitalists, whose occasional abuses of corporate power justified restrictive laws in the eyes of officials. The emphasis of this study on the uneasy accommodation between tsarist autocracy and the modern corporation clarifies aspects of Russian political, economic, and cultural life that hindered the development of capitalism on the eastern periphery of Europe.

List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Zakon (the law), 1800–56; 2. Birzhevaia goriachka (stock-exchange fever), 1856–70; 3. Proval reformy (the failure of reform), 1860–74; 4. Opeka (tutelage), 1865–90; 5. Proizvol (arbitary acts), 1880–1905; 6. Bezobrazie (outrage), 1905–14; 7. Tupik (dead end), 1914–17; 8. Autocracy, corporate law, and the dilemma of cultural delay; Selected bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.7.2002
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Gesellschaftsrecht
ISBN-10	0-521-52944-1 / 0521529441
ISBN-13	978-0-521-52944-0 / 9780521529440
Zustand	Neuware