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A revolution in commercial personhood
Hard contracts and hard money: commerce, honor, and debt imprisonment in the Revolution
The blessing of being judged: bankruptcy and the Napoleonic Codes
The paradoxes of failure
Risky business: banqueroute, faillite, and the culture of credit
A palace of debt: constructing the debtors' prison
The economy of discredit: Jean-Baptiste Bayle-Mouillard and the crusade against debt
Imprisonment
Remaking the commercial person
Bankruptcies without bankrupts: commercial personhood in an age of speculation
A discount on the future: 1848 and the remaking of financial responsibility
Epilogue.
Hard contracts and hard money: commerce, honor, and debt imprisonment in the Revolution
The blessing of being judged: bankruptcy and the Napoleonic Codes
The paradoxes of failure
Risky business: banqueroute, faillite, and the culture of credit
A palace of debt: constructing the debtors' prison
The economy of discredit: Jean-Baptiste Bayle-Mouillard and the crusade against debt
Imprisonment
Remaking the commercial person
Bankruptcies without bankrupts: commercial personhood in an age of speculation
A discount on the future: 1848 and the remaking of financial responsibility
Epilogue.