The Ltd Company (jan 1, 1200 – jan 1, 1862)
Description:
“The limited liability corporation is the greatest single discovery of modern times. Even steam and electricity are less important than the limited liability company.”Nicholas Murray Butler
President of Columbia University and of the Nobel Peace Prize
”The most important organization in the world is the company: the basis for prosperity of the West and the best hope for the future of the rest of the world.”
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge: The Company: a short history of a revolutionary idea, xv.
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Date:
jan 1, 1200
jan 1, 1862
~ 662 years