White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845 1929

by George Robb

In the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and partnerships to a complex financial structure dominated by large, joint-stock companies. The tremendous growth of big business created a world of new opportunities for criminal exploitation. The promotion and management of public companies and the trading of commercial securities proved vulnerable to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521526124
• ISBN13: 9780521526128
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"