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A comment on A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 (2011).

Re:A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 (2011) by friesfreeze on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:37AM (#36289735)
I think that the most important aspect of corporations is limited liability and that is barely mentioned in the article - but maybe that’s a narrow way of thinking about it.
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Re:A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 (2011) by zzbn00 on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:29AM (#36293103)
There is a nice and very long comment in the post regarding limited liability corporations. They existed for a before limited liability, especially through common law structures. Interestingly they were largely banned in UK after the bubble referred to in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Act
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