Title The modern corporation and private property / by Adolf A. Berle, Jr. and Gardiner C. Means

Published New York : Macmillan, 1933, ©1932

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 396 pages) Series Legal classics library (Buffalo, N.Y.) Contents Book I. Property in flux: separation of the attributes of ownership under the corporate system -- 1. Property in transition -- 2. The appearance of the corporate system -- 3. The concentration of economic power -- 4. The dispersion of stock ownership -- 5. The evolution of control -- 6. The divergence of interests between ownership and control -- Book II. Regrouping rights: relative legal position of ownership and control -- 1. Evolution of the modern corporate structure -- 2. Power over participations accruing to shares of stock -- 3. Power over routing of earnings as between shares of stock -- 4. Power to alter the original contract rights of security holders -- 5. The legal position of management -- 6. The legal position of "control" -- 7. Corporate powers as powers in trust -- 8. The resultant position of the stockholder -- Book III. Property in the stock markets: security exchanges as appraisers and liquidators -- 1. The function of the public market -- 2. Flotation and bankers' disclosure -- 3. Disclosure by the corporation to the market -- 4. Management in the market -- IV. Reorientation of enterprise: effects of the corporate system on fundamental economic concepts -- 1. The traditional logic of property -- 2. The traditional logic of profits -- 3. The inadequacy of traditional theory -- 4. The new concept of the corporation Summary Each section preceded by leaf with half-title not included in paging (5 leaves) Analysis Corporation law United States Corporations United States Notes "Prepared under the auspices of the Columbia university Council for research in the social sciences acting on behalf of the Social science research council of America." "Reissued January, 1933." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Corporations -- United States. Corporation law -- United States. Corporate governance -- United States Corporate governance Corporation law Corporations Sociétés -- Droit -- États-Unis. Sociétés -- États-Unis. Entreprises -- Etats-Unis. Gouvernement d'entreprise -- Etats-Unis. United States Form Electronic book Author Means, Gardiner C. (Gardiner Coit), 1896-1988. Columbia University. Council for Research in the Social Sciences.

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