Titre :

Beyond the personal–anonymous divide: agency relations in powers of attorney in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Auteur(s) :

Eloire, Fabien [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019
Lemercier, Claire [Auteur]
Santarosa, Veronica Aoki [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

The Economic History Review

Nom court de la revue :

The Economic History Review

Numéro :

72

Pagination :

1229-1250

Éditeur :

Wiley

Date de publication :

2019-11-01

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Powers of attorney are often interpreted as evidence of trust among the parties involved. We build a novel dataset of notarized powers of attorney, capturing a wide variety of agency relationships in four large French ...
Lire la suite >Powers of attorney are often interpreted as evidence of trust among the parties involved. We build a novel dataset of notarized powers of attorney, capturing a wide variety of agency relationships in four large French commercial cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to test hypotheses on the relational basis of economic relationships. We find little support for the idea of a radical shift from personal to anonymous relationships during our period. Our results point to more nuanced transformations. The preference for proxies in the same occupation as the principal somewhat declined, while professional proxies emerged and principals used relational chains, especially involving notaries, to find proxies.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Projet ANR :

Pratiques et matérialités des relations marchandes : vers une dépersonnalisation ? (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)

Établissement(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale

Collections :

• Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Équipe(s) de recherche :

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Date de dépôt :

2023-03-08T13:43:16Z