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The Origins of Corporations: The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages

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The Origins of Corporations: The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages - Sicard, Germain, and Landry, Matthew (Translated by), and Goetzmann, William N. (Editor)
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Fully modern corporations appeared in fourteenth-century Toulouse, much earlier than previously believed Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives from a unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe called pariage, and a culture of strong property rights and municipal self-governance. Based on archival research, Sicard ...

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The Origins of Corporations: The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages 2015, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300156485

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