The making of the modern corporation : : the Casa di San Giorgio and its legacy (1446-1720) / / Carlo Taviani.

• Superior document: Routledge research in early modern history
• VerfasserIn: Taviani, Carlo,
• Place / Publishing House: London ; : Routledge :, New York, New York : : Swiss National Science Foundation,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in early modern history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

"This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on po...

Table of Contents

• 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.