Bruce G Carruthers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Northwestern University. He was educated in Canada and the USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University since 1990, where he is Graduate Director of the sociology program. He is a consulting editor of the American Journal of Sociology.Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, President of the National Institute for Social Science Information and Chair of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. He was educated in New Zealand, Canada and the USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at the Australian National University and the University of Chicago.

via the theoretical framework, a useful perspective is offered that might be productively employed in other business history contexts ... A second contribution lies in the richness of the analysis of legal change during the specified periods ... the analysis is comprehensive and the work is a definitive future reference point on Anglo-American bankruptcy law. Most important of all, the book offers a valuable template for the study of corporate and institutional change.

• PART 1. THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE CORPORATE CREDIT NETWORK ; PART 2. RECONSTITUTING PROPERTY RIGHTS ; PART 3. RECONSTITUING JURISDICTIONAL RIGHTS ; PART 4. CONCLUSION

Bruce G Carruthers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Northwestern University. He was educated in Canada and the USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University since 1990, where he is Graduate Director of the sociology program. He is a consulting editor of the American Journal of Sociology.Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, President of the National Institute for Social Science Information and Chair of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. He was educated in New Zealand, Canada and the USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at the Australian National University and the University of Chicago.

via the theoretical framework, a useful perspective is offered that might be productively employed in other business history contexts ... A second contribution lies in the richness of the analysis of legal change during the specified periods ... the analysis is comprehensive and the work is a definitive future reference point on Anglo-American bankruptcy law. Most important of all, the book offers a valuable template for the study of corporate and institutional change.

• PART 1. THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE CORPORATE CREDIT NETWORK ; PART 2. RECONSTITUTING PROPERTY RIGHTS ; PART 3. RECONSTITUING JURISDICTIONAL RIGHTS ; PART 4. CONCLUSION

Bruce G Carruthers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Northwestern University. He was educated in Canada and the USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University since 1990, where he is Graduate Director of the sociology program. He is a consulting editor of the American Journal of Sociology.Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, President of the National Institute for Social Science Information and Chair of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. He was educated in New Zealand, Canada and the USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and has taught at the Australian National University and the University of Chicago.

via the theoretical framework, a useful perspective is offered that might be productively employed in other business history contexts ... A second contribution lies in the richness of the analysis of legal change during the specified periods ... the analysis is comprehensive and the work is a definitive future reference point on Anglo-American bankruptcy law. Most important of all, the book offers a valuable template for the study of corporate and institutional change.

• PART 1. THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE CORPORATE CREDIT NETWORK ; PART 2. RECONSTITUTING PROPERTY RIGHTS ; PART 3. RECONSTITUING JURISDICTIONAL RIGHTS ; PART 4. CONCLUSION