having a normal one where I'm stressed out about Pope Innocent IV's role in the history of corporate personhood
anyone have recommendations on the historical emergence of the corporation and the concept of property? legal theory tends to assume both as givens
@Chanders feel like I need something more Graeber-y--finding the "well the pope had this idea and then it became part of european common law and then" explanations I'm finding a bit too simple in the vein of "money happens because barter complicated"
@ingrid Not sure if this fits, but there is a transcript to glance through to see if this gets close to what you are looking for: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-katharina-pistor.html
@ingrid this is not an academic source and rather old, and also starts later than Pope Innocent IV , but I've always enjoyed Paco Xander Nathan's take on the emergence of the (modern) corporation. http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?id=corporate_metabolism
(disclaimer: I think the link above takes you to a presentation transcript by Paco on the topic that might differ from the text I read 20 years ago, but I don't have the energy to check right now.)
@ingrid
Also, iirc he does not get into the whole medieval guilds, universities and such stuff. I am sure I must have encountered more on that in my former life as a histsci person with a strong interest in medieval foo, but my memory fails me right now. Definitely nothing Graeber-y though. I am curious what others bring up!
@ingrid I’ve always enjoyed Coase’s theory of the firm paper. Also Chandler, maybe? And Polyani?