Mammon's cradle -- Contracts, debts and debtors -- Coercion, custom and contract at work -- The incorporation of business -- The limitation of liability -- Corporate performance -- Shareholders, directors and promoters -- Mammon's conceit
Summary
This study reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created in nineteenth-century Britain and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-249) and index
