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From: Nurul E. <ne_atl@onebox.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:47 AM


A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
  By Venkatesh Rao

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/

"..We are not used to viewing world history through the perspective of the corporation for the very good reason that corporations are a recent invention, and instances that had the ability to transform the world in magical ways did not really exist till the East India Company was born. Businesses of course, have been around for a while. ..

..[Many commentators] have talked about how the traditional corporate form is getting obsolete. But in digging around, I found to my surprise that nobody has actually attempted to meaningfully represent the birth-to-obsolescence evolution of the idea of the corporation. Here is my first stab at it (I am working on a much more detailed, data-driven timeline as a side project).. "