
The Corporation That Changed the World
How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
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Narrado por:
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Simon Barber
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Nick Robins
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles, and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.
The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to reveal the Company's enduring legacy as a corporation. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance, and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall. For decades, the Company was simply too big to fail, and stock market bubbles, famines, drug-running, and even duels between rival executives are to be found in this new account.
For Robins, the Company's story provides vital lessons on both the role of corporations in world history and the steps required to make global business accountable today.
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The last chapters and epilogue tie the story of the EIC directly to the problems of today, with lack of sufficient regulation leading to unbridled power being concentrated in the hands of a few very large corporations.
The narrative delivery is very British! It’s a fine performance of the text, marred only by poor pronunciation of Chinese place names, which bugged me.
Overall I highly recommend this to students of Indian and British history, historians of business, and those in a position to influence government policy around corporations.
Insightful and incisive
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a great review
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i drink liberal tears
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WOW
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Awful
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Seems a bit unbalanced and not fully informed
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I would have preferred if the author had delivered coherent narrative up front, perhaps adding a conclusion that connected the company with modern Indian politics, contemporary British misperceptions of the company or whatever other contemporary social issues the author felt were important.
Alternatively, the author could have saved me a credit and just titled it: "Why I hate the East India Company and why you should, too!"
Not what I expect from a history book
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an axe to grind
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