Author: Prasanta Kumar SenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Law of Monopolies in British India
Author: Prasanta Kumar SenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Author: Emily EriksonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691173796
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though the Company held a monopoly on English overseas trade to Asia, the Court of Directors extended the right to trade in Asia to their employees, creating an unusual situation in which employees worked both for themselves and for the Company as overseas merchants. Building on the organizational infrastructure of the Company and the sophisticated commercial institutions of the markets of the East, employees constructed a cohesive internal network of peer communications that directed English trading ships during their voyages. This network integrated Company operations, encouraged innovation, and increased the Company’s flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to local circumstance. Between Monopoly and Free Trade highlights the dynamic potential of social networks in the early modern era.
Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy
Author: Gregory M. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.
Patent Cultures
Author: Graeme GoodayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108468886
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet throughout the modern period, countries fashioned their own mechanisms for fostering technological invention. Notwithstanding the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the comparative historical development of patent practices. Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective seeks to fill this gap. Tracing national patenting from imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century to our time, this work asks fundamental questions about the limits of globalization, innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context shapes patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contested role of patents in the modern world.
The Law Reports of British India
Author: M. SubramaniamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
The East India Company
Author: Tirthankar RoyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184756135
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder. In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it—and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now. ‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’—Financial Express
How the East Was Won
Author: Andrew PhillipsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009064193
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' strategies to carve out the West's biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the 'rise of the West', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.
The Rise of Fiscal States
Author: Bartolomé Yun-CasalillaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013518
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
The Law of Monopolies in British India (Classic Reprint)
Author: Prosanto Kumar SenPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484433082
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Excerpt from The Law of Monopolies in British India I owe the. University and the general public an apology for the delay which has unavoidably occurred in the publica tion of these lectures. They were delivered in the year 1916. In order, therefore, to bring them upto date later cases of consequence, Specially on the law of patents, copyright, trade marks and restraints of trade, have been incorporated in them. To make the lectures on the law of patents and copyright more serviceable to the student and the practitioner the Indian Patents and Designs Act of 1911, the Patents and Designs (temporary Rules) Act of 1915, and the Indian Patents and Designs Rules of 1912, have been added as appendix to lecture V; and the Indian Copyright Act of 1914 and the Indian Copyright Regulations of 1914, have been added as appendix to lecture VI. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James Mill