Calendrier du 12 avril 2023
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 12/04/2023 de 16:00 à 17:30
R1-14 Campus Jourdan
BERTILORENZI Marco()
BERTILORENZI Marco()
French mining capitalism abroad. The international mobility of French civil mining engineers, 1880-1980".
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 12/04/2023 de 16:00 à 17:30
BERTILORENZI Marco()
BERTILORENZI Marco()
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Economic History Seminar
Du 12/04/2023 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
DYKSTRA Maura (Caltech)
Enforcement, Agency, and Accounting Cycles: The Institutional Context of the Late Imperial Chinese Business
This paper will review some of the accounting practices of Qing dynasty firms as they created particular conditions for long-distance trade. Relying mostly on a sample of litigation pertaining to debts and obligations from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archive of the municipality of Chongqing, it argues that the distinct but synchronous accounting cycles of Chinese firms were particularly suited to the enforcement context of Qing markets.