Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Business Organization and Internal Governance
6. 1. Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance 25
7. 2. Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth- Century Massachusetts 73
8. 3. The Evolution of Bank Boards of Directors in New York, 1840‒1950 107
9. II. Bank Behavior and Credit Markets
10. 4. Did Railroads Make Antebellum US Banks More Sound? 149
11. 5. Sources of Credit and the Extent of the Credit Market 179
12. III. Scale Economies in Nineteenth- Century Production
13. 6. Economies of Scale in Nineteenth- Century American Manufacturing Revisited 215
14. 7 Were Antebellum Cotton Plantations Factories in the Field? 245
15. Contributors 277
16. Author Index 279
17. Subject Index 285