The Making of the Modern Corporation by Carlo Taviani; -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introductory Chapter. Debating the Origins of Business Corporations

1. The German Historical School of Law (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries) 2. Scholarship on the East India Companies 3. New Institutional Economics and Social Ontology

Part I Finance and Organization of the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1518)

1 Origins and Foundation of San Giorgio

1.1. The Comperae and the Sea Ventures 1.2. The Maona

1.2.1. The Puzzle of the Maona 1.2.2. Applying Institutional Analysis to the Maona

1.3. Origins of San Giorgio

2 Financial and Fiscal Features of San Giorgio

2.1. Shares and Interests

2.1.1. The Loca 2.1.2. The Pagae

2.2. Loans and Taxes

2.2.1. The Gabelle 2.2.2. A Tax on Capital 2.2.3. The End of Direct Taxation 2.2.4. Lending to Dukes and Popes 2.2.5. Locking in Capital

2.3. San Giorgio as a Bank 2.4. Other Aspects

2.4.1. The Moltiplichi and the Genoese Families 2.4.2. Salt

3 San Giorgio’s Political Features

3.1. Genoese Families 3.2. Offices 3.3. Genoese Political Instability 3.4. Interest Rate and Political Transformations 3.5. Factions 3.6. Land and Sea

Part II The Casa di San Giorgio’s Territories (1407–1518)

4 Origins of San Giorgio’s Territorial Power

4.1. Sources 4.2. A Territorial State’s Accountability 4.3. Pietrasanta: Land for Debt 4.4. Famagusta: The First Contract

5 On the Black Sea

5.1. A Multifaceted Landscape 5.2. Usury 5.3. Crusades 5.4. The End of “Colonies”

6 In Liguria and Corsica

6.1. Corsica, a World Unto Itself 6.2. Lunigiana’s Owners 6.3. Paying to Be Governed: Liguria

6.3.1. Ventimiglia 6.3.2. Levanto

6.4. The End of the Territorial Dominion

Part III Genoa’s Two Seats of Power: The Commune and San Giorgio (1453–66)

7 Contra San Giorgio

7.1. The Officium Monetae 7.2. First Memorial Against San Giorgio 7.3. The Boteschi 7.4. Second Memorial Against San Giorgio 7.5. Attempting to Take Over the Commune (1453–58) 7.6. Francesco Sforza (1464)

8 Machiavelli and San Giorgio

8.1. Machiavelli Encountering Genoese Merchants 8.2. Florentine Histories, VIII, 29 8.3. Late Genoese Debate 8.4. Anachronistic References to Machiavelli

Part IV The Casa di San Giorgio’s Model (1518–1791)

9 The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and San Giorgio

9.1. Ambassadors’ Views on the VOC’s Political Role 9.2. Paul de Choart de Buzanval 9.3. The Foundation of the VOC 9.4. Analysis of Buzanval’s Text 9.5. Buzanval’s Text in Context 9.6. Genoese Traders and the East Indies 9.7. The Following Century: Ferdinando Galiani

10 The Bank of England and San Giorgio

10.1. Foundation of the Bank of England 10.2. English Bank Founders and Machiavelli 10.3. Founders of Banks and Machiavelli in North America

11 John Law and the Mississippi Company

11.1. Law’s Schemes 11.2. Heinrich Fick and Earl Hamilton on Law’s Schemes 11.3. Law and Genoese Traders 11.4. The Machiavellian Scheme

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Bibliography Index

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