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"À l'été 2008, la planète tremble en découvrant l'ampleur de la crise financière. Les subprimes deviennent en quelques semaines une réalité dévastatrice. Peut-on considérer que l'échec a eu une vertu et que du séisme est sorti un bien? Sans doute, mais à quel prix? Success story, demande de régulation, crise, faillite, échec, tels sont les axes d'une réflexion à laquelle l'Association française d'histoire économique (AFHÉ) a voulu participer à l'occasion de son dernier congrès, les 4 et 5 octobre 2013. Les travaux présentés dans cet ouvrage font varier les échelles d'analyse temporelle, spatiale et sociale et révèlent les multiples dimensions de l'échec, puisque celui des uns forge parfois le succès des autres et peut avoir des retombées imprévisibles, pas nécessairement négatives, que l'on se place au niveau des individus, des familles, des sociétés ou de l'humanité tout entière. Lorsque pointe l'échec, plusieurs options s'ouvrent : c'est l'heure des choix. Faut-il opter pour une gestion prudente? Réorienter l'activité et se faire plus offensif ou au contraire abandonner un créneau, un projet? Renoncer, persévérer, recréer? L'échec peut alimenter le repli et le conservatisme autant que l'innovation et la prise de risques. Si la remise en cause est une vertu possible de l'échec, quels en sont les lieux et les outils? On trouvera ici vingt-quatre interventions inédites organisées en cinq thèmes qui rendent compte de la richesse des approches : les usages sociaux de la faillite ; l'histoire des entreprises ; les espaces transfrontaliers et politiques en Europe ; les districts et les territoires ; les institutions et les politiques publiques. Si le thème de réflexion peut surprendre par sa formulation antinomique, l'introduction d'Aldo Schiavone, "Quelques hypothèses sur les temps qui nous attendent", confirme la justesse de l'intuition originale."--Page 4 of cover.

Faillite --- Histoire --- Europe --- Conditions économiques --- Histoire. --- Conditions économiques --- Financial crises --- History --- France --- Economic conditions --- economic and financial history

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The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of modern finance, this volume presents the ways in which a corporation creates value. More than two centuries ago, Adam Smith explained the concept of division of labor and the efficiencies of specialization as the mechanism in which a firm creates value. However, corporations now find themselves outsourcing some processes to other firms as an alternative way to create value. There must be other economic forces at work than simply the internal efficiencies of a firm. We begin by describing the work of a rather obscure scholar named John Burr Williams who demonstrated in 1938 how the earnings of a firm are capitalized into corporate value through its stock price. We then delve into the inner workings of the modern corporation by describing the contributions of Nobel Memorial Prize winners Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson. More than any others, these scholars created a renewed appreciation for our understanding of the institutional detail of the modern corporation in reducing costs and increasing efficiency. While Coase and Williamson provided meaningful descriptions of the advantage of a corporation, they did not offer prescriptions for the avenues the corporation can create more value in an era when new technologies make outsourcing and telecommuting increasingly possible. Michael Jensen and William Meckling describe in greater detail the nature of the implicit contracts a corporation employs, and recommend remedies to various problems that arise when the goals of the corporation are not aligned with the incentives of its agents. We also describe the further nuances to these relationships as offered by Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz. We treat the lives of these extraordinary individuals who looked at a very familiar problem in a sufficiently novel light to change the way all look at corporations ever since. That is the test of genius.

Economic theory. --- Finance—History. --- Corporations—Finance. --- Business enterprises—Finance. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Financial History. --- Corporate Finance. --- Business Finance.

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Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary approach he has nurtured in himself and others.

England --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Mayhew, Nicholas Julian --- Mayhew, N. J. --- Mayhew, Nicholas --- Money --- Prices --- Wages --- Business & economics --- History --- Money. --- Prices. --- Wages. --- History. --- Economic history. --- Finance. --- Medieval. --- Compensation --- Departmental salaries --- Earnings --- Pay --- Remuneration --- Salaries --- Wage-fund --- Wage rates --- Working class --- Income --- Labor costs --- Compensation management --- Cost and standard of living --- Finance, Public. --- Banks and banking. --- Finance--History. --- Europe --- Economics. --- Economic History. --- Financial History. --- Public Finance. --- Banking. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- History—476-1492. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Public finances --- Finance—History. --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Money - History --- Prices - History --- Wages - History