Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Subtitle: The English East India Company, 1600-1757
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691159065
Subjects: Free trade; Capitalism; Great britain, economic conditions; Great britain, commerce; East india company; Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714
Description: The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia.