The Corporation Under Russian Law, 1800 1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy

by Thomas C. Owen

Book Overview

This study analyses the legal framework imposed on corporations by the imperial Russian Government. It stresses the dual nature of the bureaucracy's policy toward modern capitalist enterprise: encouragement for the sake of economic development, and regimentation in the interest of maintaining autocratic control. By illuminating the political nature of the autocracy's economic agenda, Professor Owen seeks to explain why Russian corporate law became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521529441
• ISBN13: 9780521529440
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"