The Corporation That Changed the World

How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

Business & Finance, Economics, Economic History
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Author: Nick Robins ISBN: 9781849646925
Publisher: Pluto Press Publication: October 5, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Nick Robins
ISBN: 9781849646925
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication: October 5, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Companys practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.

The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Companys enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account.

For Robins, the Companys story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Companys practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.

The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Companys enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account.

For Robins, the Companys story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.

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