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Hejeebu, Santhi.

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Microeconomic investigations of the English East India Company.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Microeconomic investigations of the English East India Company./
Author:	Hejeebu, Santhi.
Description:	118 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-02, Section: A, page: 0502.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-02A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9917559
ISBN:	0599164476

Microeconomic investigations of the English East India Company.
Hejeebu, Santhi.

Microeconomic investigations of the English East India Company. - 118 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-02, Section: A, page: 0502.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 1998.

The English East India Company operated in Bengal for a hundred years prior to becoming the government of the region. Controversies over the causes of English government in India remain unsettled. The first chapter focuses on the recent historical attention on the Company's role in the Bengal economy during the pre-takeover period. Explanations of the Company's takeover of the government assume that the firm bulked large in the local markets. Defining large as an ability to set prices, I argue that the English were not large players in the Bengal economy. Using a straightforward supply and demand model, my analysis counters the received view and suggests that the Company was small.

ISBN: 0599164476Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Microeconomic investigations of the English East India Company.
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520 $a The English East India Company operated in Bengal for a hundred years prior to becoming the government of the region. Controversies over the causes of English government in India remain unsettled. The first chapter focuses on the recent historical attention on the Company's role in the Bengal economy during the pre-takeover period. Explanations of the Company's takeover of the government assume that the firm bulked large in the local markets. Defining large as an ability to set prices, I argue that the English were not large players in the Bengal economy. Using a straightforward supply and demand model, my analysis counters the received view and suggests that the Company was small.
520 $a In the second chapter, the own vs. rent problem is explored in the context of three historical trading firms, the Hudson's Bay, the Royal African, and the East India companies. Both owned and hired ships were used to transport the commodities of these early multinational enterprises. Historical accounts indicate that hired vessels were used on more competitive routes and that the corporate managers were often partial owners of the hired ships. Given the level output market power, the shipping executives could pursue an integration policy consistent with their private incentives. Such activities, known as influence activities, explain the decline in the use of hired ships over time. The extent of vertical integration varied with the cost and benefits facing individuals within the firms.
520 $a The recent literature on the English chartered companies has attempted to characterize them as efficient institutions, ones which could effectively control overseas employees. The claim has not been proven empirically. The idea of efficiency depends crucially on the idea of opportunity cost. The third chapter addresses the question of whether the overseas agents of the East India Company in fact earn their opportunity cost of joining the firm. The answer depends on actual earnings data in India, life-cycle earnings in England, and the mortality experiences in both locations. I follow the careers of the 682 covenanted servants who joined the Company's settlement in Bengal between 1700 and 1774. Under several alternative income scenarios the agents were earning economic rents.
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