10-14-2014, 11:38 PM | #21 |
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Re: Human selective breeding - how successful?
To get a European business that has documentably been continuously in operation in corporate form you have to come all the way to an Austrian beer-cellar and eatery that can show it was licensed in 803. But I think that started out as a commercial operation of a monastery, a Church corporation. For purely secular European businesses you have to start with Sean's Bar in Athlone, which has documents of continuous operation since AD 900 — but that has usually been in sole proprietorship. And the same problem with the family of the marquis de Goulaine, which has been selling Château Goulaine wine since AD 1000 but usually owned by a sole proprietor. Then you are getting into mediaeval city corporations: the Corporation of the City of London antedates the Conquest but has government functions. As you suspected, European corporations other than abbeys, nunneries, chapters of canons, guilds, and city corporations were pretty thin on the ground until the Renaissance. But Japan apparently has an old tradition of corporate ownership of family businesses.
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