Anglo-American Securities Regulation
Subtitle: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521521130
Subjects: Economic history; Investment & securities; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - General; History; History - U.S.; History: American; England; USA; History / United States / General
First sentence: Two institutional developments in late seventeenth-century England - the beginning of the permanent national debt and the rapid spread of the corporate form of enterprise - caused the volume of English securities transactions to become large enough to give rise to an organized securities market.