Mark Latham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3802698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Latham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Latham |
| SIGNATURE | LATHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bankruptcy Laws Around Europe (1850–2015)
Despite the relevance of bankruptcy law for a number of key issues regarding business functioning and organization, little is known about the features and evolution of these legal institutions over time and space. This paper starts to fill this gap in current knowledge by analyzing a new data set providing consistent information about key features of bankruptcy law between 1850 and 2015 in the thirty largest European economies. Regarding institut…
A fraud, a drunkard, and a worthless scamp’
The estate agency industry played a key role in the growth of the interwar property market. An important feature of the industry was the low barriers to entry, particularly in terms of regulating practitioners. Yet repeated attempts were made to introduce mandatory licensing of estate agents during this period, all of which failed. This article explores why these attempts were instigated, by whom, and why they failed. It utilises the comparison w…
Latham at Large
The city has been wronged and abused
Corruption by office holders in eighteenth-century British institutions, from state to local level, played an instrumental role in the emergence of modern bureaucracy, and the development of accountable, professionalized systems of administration. Due to the similarities between the institutional culture of eighteenth-century Britain and those within many contemporary developing societies, social scientists have also sought to draw lessons from B…
From oligarchy to a ‘rate payer's democracy’
Between the Glorious Revolution and the mid-eighteenth century the governance of the Corporation of London was transformed from an oligarchy of aldermen to a ‘rate payer's democracy’. Previous analyses of this transformation have produced a contradictory picture of how and why this shift in governance occurred. By analysing the Corporation's progress to democracy from an administrative perspective, this article argues that this process was more e…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
The Network University
This paper was delivered to the University of Western Sydney Senior Staff Conference by Mark Latham, Member for Werriwa, at the Blue Mountains, 11 November 1999
Civilising Global Capitalism
The Network University
This paper was delivered to the University of Western Sydney Senior Staff Conference by Mark Latham, Member for Werriwa, at the Blue Mountains, 11 November 1999
The city has been wronged and abused
Corruption by office holders in eighteenth-century British institutions, from state to local level, played an instrumental role in the emergence of modern bureaucracy, and the development of accountable, professionalized systems of administration. Due to the similarities between the institutional culture of eighteenth-century Britain and those within many contemporary developing societies, social scientists have also sought to draw lessons from B…
Bankruptcy Laws Around Europe (1850–2015)
Despite the relevance of bankruptcy law for a number of key issues regarding business functioning and organization, little is known about the features and evolution of these legal institutions over time and space. This paper starts to fill this gap in current knowledge by analyzing a new data set providing consistent information about key features of bankruptcy law between 1850 and 2015 in the thirty largest European economies. Regarding institut…
A fraud, a drunkard, and a worthless scamp’
The estate agency industry played a key role in the growth of the interwar property market. An important feature of the industry was the low barriers to entry, particularly in terms of regulating practitioners. Yet repeated attempts were made to introduce mandatory licensing of estate agents during this period, all of which failed. This article explores why these attempts were instigated, by whom, and why they failed. It utilises the comparison w…
From oligarchy to a ‘rate payer's democracy’
Between the Glorious Revolution and the mid-eighteenth century the governance of the Corporation of London was transformed from an oligarchy of aldermen to a ‘rate payer's democracy’. Previous analyses of this transformation have produced a contradictory picture of how and why this shift in governance occurred. By analysing the Corporation's progress to democracy from an administrative perspective, this article argues that this process was more e…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
The Network University
This paper was delivered to the University of Western Sydney Senior Staff Conference by Mark Latham, Member for Werriwa, at the Blue Mountains, 11 November 1999
Civilising Global Capitalism
From oligarchy to a ‘rate payer's democracy’
Between the Glorious Revolution and the mid-eighteenth century the governance of the Corporation of London was transformed from an oligarchy of aldermen to a ‘rate payer's democracy’. Previous analyses of this transformation have produced a contradictory picture of how and why this shift in governance occurred. By analysing the Corporation's progress to democracy from an administrative perspective, this article argues that this process was more e…
Latham at Large
The city has been wronged and abused
Corruption by office holders in eighteenth-century British institutions, from state to local level, played an instrumental role in the emergence of modern bureaucracy, and the development of accountable, professionalized systems of administration. Due to the similarities between the institutional culture of eighteenth-century Britain and those within many contemporary developing societies, social scientists have also sought to draw lessons from B…
A fraud, a drunkard, and a worthless scamp’
The estate agency industry played a key role in the growth of the interwar property market. An important feature of the industry was the low barriers to entry, particularly in terms of regulating practitioners. Yet repeated attempts were made to introduce mandatory licensing of estate agents during this period, all of which failed. This article explores why these attempts were instigated, by whom, and why they failed. It utilises the comparison w…
Bankruptcy Laws Around Europe (1850–2015)
Despite the relevance of bankruptcy law for a number of key issues regarding business functioning and organization, little is known about the features and evolution of these legal institutions over time and space. This paper starts to fill this gap in current knowledge by analyzing a new data set providing consistent information about key features of bankruptcy law between 1850 and 2015 in the thirty largest European economies. Regarding institut…
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