The Company That Changed the World

The "magnificent" history of a giant, the mother of modern joint stock companies, the English East India Company, founded in 1600. During its existence of more than 250 years, its size was tens of times greater than today's IT and oil companies. This fortune was obtained by gutting India and moving it to London, which would turn it into an imperial capital, and by stealing China's tea by daring to commit the greatest theft of trade secrets and culture in human history. Millions of Indians who died of hunger, misery and exploitation, and the same number of Chinese who were addicted to opium were only details. The company always convinced the state that its interests and the interests of the state were the same. Its military force of 154,500 men, which was sufficiently deterrent for its rivals, was in the service of the British Empire in colonial wars. Its difference from a state was that it was only a joint stock company. When it comes to corruption, Enron, and when it comes to market power, Wal-Mart, can't beat the Company today. He lived through the British and French revolutions and created the Bengal Revolution. He saw riots and committed massacres. He bribed many kings in exchange for a charter and brought Cromwell to his knees. Adam Smith, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Edmund Burke, John attan Swift, Thomas Malthus either entered its doors or benefited from its shadow. Some saw its birth, some saw its collapse. Karl Marx would hammer the nails into his coffin. The cautionary tale, full of intrigue, of a monster who was the forerunner of modern multinational corporations: The surprising history of a company, from gentlemanly robberies to stock market bubbles, from document forgery to duels between corporate executives; striking lessons about the responsibility of today's global corporations. When we learn this history, we will have no doubt about what today's companies can do.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Translated by: İnanç Özekmekçi
Cover: Sevil Tarla
Page Layout: Clear Water

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Printing Year: 2017

Size: 14x21

Number of Prints: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 352

Media Type: Paperback