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Joint Stock Company
http://jointstock.wordpress.com
The joint-stock company was developed in the early 1600s as a way to spread risk among investors and harness the resources of more than one person or family. Each stockholder had a transferable share of the company, a say in corporate governance, and a portion of the profits. This business model was largely responsible for financing the colonization of large parts of North America (through the Virginia and Plymouth companies), and of India and parts of Asia (through the British and Dutch East India companies).
We created Joint Stock Company the blog to write about everything from economics to politics and cultural criticism. The original idea was that by pooling resources, the individual authors could spread the risk of starting up a new blog. In practice, instead of limiting liability, it almost seems to make each author more responsible for the ideas of another. But it keeps us honest, and as we continue to think and to post, we hope you continue to read.
- Added on: Nov 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: JSC5
- Listed in: Politics International Affairs
- Tags: politics development economics entrepreneurship policy big picture
Recent Posts
Coming up with research topics
I’ve started a new page on the blog called ‘Questions‘ — just look to the tab next to ‘About’. I’ll start using that page to list interesting research questions I’ve dreamed up on my own or in response ...
Latin American terrorists?
Honduras’s elected president, Manuel Zelaya, was overthrown in a military coup months ago because right-wingers didn’t like him getting buddy-buddy with Castro and Chavez. A civilian stooge named Micheletti was put in his place, and the c...
Restaurant guides and food snobbery
A rushed piece before I drop off the edge of the internet-access world: An article in this week’s New Yorker describes a secretive sit-down the author had with one of Michelin’s restaurant reviewers. My first impression while reading this...
on religion
In the past two days, we’ve seen two pieces in the New York Times on religion. One by columnist Nick Kristof argues that we are seeing detente in the religion/atheism debates, moving away from the acrimonious, all-or-nothing approach from recen...
out and about
I’ve got a hectic schedule coming up. I’ll be on the coast and in a game reserve through the end of November, and after that I’ll either be backpacking along the coast or in Addis for a week, before spending a week in Cape Town. Int...
In the bush
I’ll be gone on a 7 day roadtrip to Blyde River Canyon and Kruger National Park starting early tomorrow morning. On the off-chance that my 3G works way out there, then I might have something to post. Or not. Otherwise, you’ll just have to...
