Business life and public policy
Subtitle: essays in honour of D.C. Coleman
By: edited by Neil McKendrick and R.B. Outhwaite.
Contributors: Coleman, D. C. 1920-; McKendrick, Neil.; Outhwaite, R. B.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Coleman, D. C. 1920-; Finance -- Great Britain -- History.; Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- History.; Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Notes: "Bibliography of D.C. Coleman's published works": p. 251-255.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Piscatorial politics in the early Parliaments of Elizabeth I / G.R. Elton; title: Marriage as business / R.B. Outhwaite; title: Age and accumulation in the London business community, 1665-1720 / Peter Earle; title: The use and abuse of credit in eighteenth-century England / Julian Hoppit; title: Convicts, commerce, and sovereignty / C.H. Wilson; title: "Gentlemen and Players" revisited / Neil McKendrick; title: The City, entrepreneurship, and insurance / Clive Trebilcock; title: At the head of all the new professions / W.J. Reader; title: Bernard Shaw, Bertold Brecht, and the businessman in literature / J.M. Winter; title: Lost opportunities / B.W.E. Alford; title: Ideology or pragmatism? The nationalization of coal, 1916-46 / Barry Supple.