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This major study considers bankruptcy in eighteenth-century England. Typically, business enterprise in this period has been seen as a success story - where men like Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood and Arkwright helped to forge the Industrial Revolution. But this is a myth, for thousands of businesses failed, hounded by their creditors into bankruptcy and ignominy. This book charts their history by looking at the incidence and causes of bankruptcy and by examining contemporary reactions to these. In this way, not only is evidence produced to improve our understanding of the nature of business enterprise, but the dynamics of the eighteenth-century economy over both the short and the long term are uncovered.

Bankruptcy --- Business enterprises --- Business cycles --- Faillite --- Entreprises --- Cycles économiques --- History --- Histoire --- -Business cycles --- -Business enterprises --- -Business organizations --- Businesses --- Companies --- Enterprises --- Firms --- Organizations, Business --- Business --- Economic cycles --- Economic fluctuations --- Cycles --- Financial crises --- Cessio bonorum --- Insolvency --- Privileged debts --- Business failures --- Commercial law --- Debt --- -History --- -Law and legislation --- -Bankruptcy --- Cycles économiques --- Business organizations --- Law and legislation --- Arts and Humanities

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Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- England --- History --- Civilization --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- ANGLETERRE --- HISTOIRE --- 1689-1702 (GUILLAUME III ET MARIE II) --- 1702-1714 (ANNE) --- 1714-1727 (GEORGE IER) --- CIVILISATION --- 18E SIECLE --- 17E SIECLE --- 17E-18E SIECLES --- Civilisation --- XVIIe-XVIIIe s. -- 1601-1800 --- Grande-Bretagne

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning economic activity. Julian Hoppit here provides the first comprehensive account of these acts, revealing how government affected economic life in this critical period prior to the Industrial Revolution, and how economic interests across Britain used legislative authority for their own benefit. Through a series of case studies, he shows how ideas, interests, and information influenced statutory action in practice. Existing frameworks such as 'mercantilism' and the 'fiscal-military state' fail to capture the full richness and structural limitations of how political power influenced Britain's precocious economic development in the period. Instead, finely grained statutory action was the norm, guided more by present needs than any grand plan, with regulatory ambitions constrained by administrative limitations, and some parts of Britain benefiting much more than others.

Great Britain --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government

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Industrial economics --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Technological innovations --- Innovations --- History --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Economic conditions --- Industries --- Conditions économiques --- Industrie --- Industrial revolution --- -GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- 331.100 --- 331.12 --- -Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Revolution, Industrial --- Economic history --- Social history --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de industrie. --- Economic conditions. --- History. --- -Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Conditions économiques --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de industrie --- -Technological innovations --- -History