Politicized Economies: Monarchy, Monopoly, and Mercantilism (Texas a & M University Economics Series)

Politicized Economies Illuminates The High Tide Of Mercantilism In England And The Entrenchment Of Controls In The French And Spanish Economies Between 1540 And 1640. Ekelund And Tollison Subject Mercantilist Foreign Trade To Neoclassical-neoinstitutional Analysis, Examining The General Economic Organization Of The Mercantile Companies And Focusing On The Economic Inner Workings Of The East India Company. The Authors Probe For The Origins Of The Modern Corporation In The Early Joint Stock Companies Of England And Analyze The Effects Of Regulatory Forms On The Business Organizations That Emerged To Engage In Foreign Trade. I. Mercantilism, Rent Seeking, And Institutional Change -- 2. Rent-seeking Theory And Its Application To Mercantilism -- 3. Economic Regulation And Rent Seeking In Mercantile England -- 4. Venality In French Mercantile Institutions -- 5. Internal Regulation In The Spanish Mercantile Economy -- 6. Economic Organization And Functions Of The Mercantile Chartered Companies -- 7. The English East India Company And The Mercantile Origins Of The Modern Corporation -- 8. Conclusion: The Political Economy Of Mercantilism. By Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. And Robert D. Tollison. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [273]-289) And Index.