Article ID: CBB695602096

The ‘interests of commerce’: business failure in the Commercial Code Debates, 1801–07 (2016)

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By rejecting guilds, the French Revolution heightened the importance of law in defining legitimate market activity. The debates on bankruptcy law in the Commercial Code from 1801 to 1807 were structured by a perceived crisis in credit following the Revolution. The debates involved two competing visions of the ‘interests of commerce’: buttressing market discipline for the market as a whole and smoothing debt recovery for creditors. The focus here is on the business representatives taking part in the debate, who faced the issue of defining commerce as an occupation within a legal framework. Since insolvency procedure was guided by local businessmen in the form of commercial courts, it became a debate on how commerce fit into the civic culture of post-revolutionary society. ‘Commerce’ as an entity ended up being both legitimated and delimited in ways that went beyond the usual stress on its special public utility.

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Authors & Contributors
Pahlow, Louis
Karl Gratzer
Grettler, David
Harvey, David Allen
Magowska, Anita
Ryan, Walter
Journals
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Almagest
Economic History Review
Environmental History
French Historical Studies
History of Psychiatry
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Routledge
Brill
Franco Angeli
Princeton University Press
University of California Press
University of Rochester Press
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Law and legislation
Business and commerce
Science and society
Bankruptcy
Business history
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Chambeyron, Antoine-Marie
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19th century
20th century
18th century
16th century
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Germany
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Europe
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Borgward-Gruppe
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