TY - BOOK AU - McGaughey,Ewan TI - Principles of enterprise law: the economic constitution and human rights T2 - Law in context SN - 9781316517642 AV - KD2185 .M34 2022 U1 - 343.4107 MCG 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Law KW - Economic aspects KW - Great Britain KW - Business enterprises KW - Law and legislation KW - Social legislation KW - Commercial law KW - LAW / Corporate KW - bisacsh N1 - History: state and corporate power -- Modern theory -- Corporate constitutions and directors -- Investment and shareholding -- Labour rights -- Competition and consumers -- Insolvency and creditors -- Education -- Health and care -- Banking -- Natural resources -- Electricity and energy -- Food, forests and water -- Housing and construction -- Road and rail transport -- Communications -- Web and broadcast media -- Marketplaces -- Military and security -- Fiscal and social policy -- Conclusion : the future of enterprise N2 - "Preface: why I've written a book on 'enterprise law' When I got my first full time job as an academic, a professor who I admired very much took me for lunch, and I said wanted to start a course on 'enterprise law'. I said it would be about the economic constitution, rights, corporations and public services. 'Oh, don't worry about that', said the professor, 'what you should really think about is who you want to be.' I went away and I thought about this carefully. I decided I wasn't so interested in 'being' anybody particular, if that just meant having a title or an office, but rather I wanted to 'do' something. A few days later, I went and explained this to the professor, and the next year I was allowed to start teaching 'enterprise governance', with a class of six masters students in 2016"-- ER -