Contents |
Introduction: the corporation as metaphor -- John Locke, desire, and the incorporation of money -- Wonderful event: the South Sea bubble and the crisis of property -- Insurance and the problem of sentimental representation -- "Bodies of men": abolitionist writing and the question of interest -- Held in reserve: banks, serial crises, and the ekphrastic turn -- Coda: the entrepreneur as corporate hero. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2015017769 |
ISBN | 9780226291123 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | 022629112X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
ISBN | (ebook) |