The paper analyzes the development and subsequent decline of the Middlesex Canal, a twenty-seven mile inland waterway that joined Lowell in northern Massachusetts with Boston and the sea. Built from 1793 to 1804, the canal was an important catalyst...
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company;Corporate governance -- United States;
Presenting evidence from a 19th century corporation, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (C&O), the paper shows that issues of corporate governance have existed since the first corporations were established in the U.S. The C&O used a stockholder...
In this paper, an author discovers his heritage: the income taxes which evolved in the South of the United States during the nineteenth century. These taxes are of interest because many tax concepts which are now taken for granted were developed...
Books reviewed are: David A. R. Forrester, Schmalenbach and After: A Study of the Evolution of German Business Economics Reviewed by Konrad W. Kubin; Tito Antoni, II Bilancio di una Azienda Laniera del Trecento Reviewed by Alvaro Martinelli;...
