I will resume and start wrapping up my comprehensive survey of Adam Smith’s 1784 digression on joint stock companies next week. In the meantime, below is a compendium of my recent blog posts on Adam Smith’s critique of joint stock companies

General (three posts)

1. Adam Smith and the economics of corporate governance
2. Adam Smith’s rebuke of corporate boards
3. Adam Smith’s digression on joint stock companies (continued)

Royal African, Hudson’s Bay, and South Sea companies (one post each)

1. Adam Smith’s brief history of the Royal African Company
2. Adam Smith’s survey of the Hudson’s Bay Company
3. Adam Smith’s South Sea Company post-mortem

East India Company (five posts)

1. Adam Smith’s very long paragraph: part 1 of 3
2. Adam Smith’s very long paragraph: part 2 of 3
3. Adam Smith’s very long paragraph: part 3 of 3
4. Lessons from the rise and fall of the East India Company: public versus private government
5. Lessons from the rise and fall of the East India Company: Adam Smith’s Catch-22

Bonus link (via Wikipedia): List of chartered companies