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Theory and history: seventeenth-century joint-stock chartered trading companies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Ann M. Carlos  and
Stephen Nicholas
Ann M. Carlos
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0256
Stephen Nicholas
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Business Development and Corporate History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 916 - 924
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