Politicized economies
Subtitle: monarchy, monopoly, and mercantilism
By: by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Robert D. Tollison.
Contributors: Tollison, Robert D.
Series: Texas A & M University economics series ;; no. 14
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: College Station, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: East India Company -- History.; Mercantile system -- History.; International trade -- History.; Economic history -- 1600-1750.
Description: Politicized Economies illuminates the high tide of mercantilism in England and the entrenchment of controls in the French and Spanish economies between 1540 and 1640. Ekelund and Tollison subject mercantilist foreign trade to neoclassical-neoinstitutional analysis, examining the general economic organization of the mercantile companies and focusing on the economic inner workings of the East India Company.

The authors probe for the origins of the modern corporation in the early joint stock companies of England and analyze the effects of regulatory forms on the business organizations that emerged to engage in foreign trade.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index.