The Invention of Enterprise : : Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times /

The Invention of Enterprise : : Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times / / ed. by Joel Mokyr, William J. Baumol, David S. Landes.

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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Baumol, William J.,
Cain, Louis P.,
Casson, Mark,
Chan, Wellington K. K.,
Gelderblom, Oscar,
Godley, Andrew,
Graham, Margaret B. W.,
Hau, Michel,
Hudson, Michael,
Kuran, Timur,
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.,
Landes, David S.,
Mokyr, Joel,
Munro, John,
Murray, James M.,
Schramm, Carl J.,
Shimizu, Hiroshi,
Strom, Robert J.,
Wengenroth, Ulrich,
Wolcott, Susan,
Wunsch, Cornelia,
Yonekura, Seiichiro,
HerausgeberIn:
Baumol, William J.,
Landes, David S.,
Mokyr, Joel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2010
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Physical Description:1 online resource (584 p.) :; 6 halftones. 7 line illus. 21 tables. 3 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface.The Entrepreneur in History
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Global Enterprise and Industrial Performance: An Overview
  • Chapter 1. Entrepreneurs: From the Near Eastern Takeoff to the Roman Collapse
  • Chapter 2. Neo-Babylonian Entrepreneurs
  • Chapter 3. The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions
  • Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Medieval Europe
  • Chapter 5. Tawney's Century, 1540-1640: The Roots of Modern Capitalist Entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 6. The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
  • Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship and the Industrial Revolution in Britain
  • Chapter 8. Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830-1900
  • Chapter 9. History of Entrepreneurship: Britain, 1900-2000
  • Chapter 10. History of Entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 11. Entrepreneurship in France
  • Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum United States
  • Chapter 13. Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865-1920
  • Chapter 14. Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920-2000
  • Chapter 15. An Examination of the Supply of Financial Credit to Entrepreneurs in Colonial India
  • Chapter 16. Chinese Entrepreneurship since Its Late Imperial Period
  • Chapter 17. Entrepreneurship in Pre-World War II Japan: The Role and Logic of the Zaibatsu
  • Chapter 18. "Useful Knowledge" of Entrepreneurship: Some Implications of the History
  • Contributors
  • Index

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