Company. A brief history of a revolutionary idea

What caused the stock market, opium wars, the British Empire, "Disneyfiction", "MacDonaldization" and "Coca-Kolanization"? What kind of invention of humanity permeates all areas of activity?
Yes, Hegel, Marx and Lenin forgue us, but this is not a state, not a community, not a family and not a party, this is a commercial enterprise, the company is the most influential public institution, the main catalyst of the world-historical process, the source of all the best and Evil, which is in our world, a powerful engine puming from one part of the world to another money, goods, human and natural resources. The history of the development of companies is the history of constant social innovation, from the shopping societies of ancient Assyria to the first "financial pyramids of medieval Europe , on the invention of the principle of limited liability to share capital, from the "municipal corporations" to modern transnational giants that push out states from the distribution of the flows of material values ​​and defining our lives