Book contents
- The Domestication of Competition
- The Domestication of Competition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Ideas
- Part II The Analytic Narrative
- 3 The Decline of Traditional Authority and the Rise of Corporate Actors
- 4 From Militias to Militaries
- 5 From Adventurers to Companies
- 6 From Factions to Parties
- 7 From Churches to Universities
- Part III The Wider View
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
5 - From Adventurers to Companies
from Part II - The Analytic Narrative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2023
- The Domestication of Competition
- The Domestication of Competition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Ideas
- Part II The Analytic Narrative
- 3 The Decline of Traditional Authority and the Rise of Corporate Actors
- 4 From Militias to Militaries
- 5 From Adventurers to Companies
- 6 From Factions to Parties
- 7 From Churches to Universities
- Part III The Wider View
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 turns to the economic sphere, with special attention to the emergence of the modern economic corporation, as a competitor par excellence. I examine its origins in medieval antecedents, how post-revolutionary US was the ideal environment for its initial cultivation and elaboration, and its subsequent development in Europe and beyond. The economic firm is in many ways the ‘ideal type’ of the modern corporate actor, but I am concerned to show in the next two chapters that new corporate actors in the political and ideological/cultural spheres are also crucial to the general domestication of competition in liberal societies.
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- The Domestication of CompetitionSocial Evolution and Liberal Society, pp. 131 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023