Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-15-2018
Publication Citation
25 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 291 (2018)
Abstract
This paper explores the attempts to depict the global rise to dominance of the shareholder-orientedj oint stock corporationa s largely economically determined and to portray these corporations as fundamentally 'rivate" in nature. By analyzing the economic nature of the joint stock companies (JSCs) that emerged in growing numbers in the nineteenth century, the historical construction of a corporate legal form to accommodate them, and the very different possible futures contained within their rise (one highly "financialized," the other increasingly "socialized'), the paper argues that special interests and power lie behind what is often dressed up as economic efficiency. Against this backdrop, the paper seeks to highlight the sharp contradiction between the continuing private appropriation of corporate surpluses and the increasingly social and transnational character of production and growing volume of public interventions, national and international, needed to protect rentier investors.
Recommended Citation
Ireland, Paddy
(2018)
"Efficiency or Power? The Rise of the Shareholder-oriented Joint Stock Corporation,"
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies: Vol. 25:
Iss.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol25/iss1/13
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