Joint-Stock Enterprise in France, 1807-1867

Integrating politics, economics, and law, Freedman traces the origin, development, and the role of joint-stock companies in France from the prerevolutionary Old Regime to the reorganization of the corporation under the legislation of 1867. He focuses on two types of companies, the <3>societe anonyme<1> and the <3>societe en commandite par actions<1>, to show that French corporate law was as libera...