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Institutions, Politics, and the Corporate Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2015

ANDREA COLLI  and
ALBERTO RINALDI
ANDREA COLLI
Affiliation:
Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History in the Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi,” Milano and CRIOS Fellow, Italy. Contact information: Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, I-20136 Milan, Italy. E-mail: andrea.colli@unibocconi.it.
ALBERTO RINALDI
Affiliation:
Alberto Rinaldi is Assistant Professor in Economic History in the Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and RECent, Italy. E-mail: alberto.rinaldi@unimore.it.
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 249 - 269
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