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The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times / edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, & William J. Baumol.

LIBRA HB701 .I58 2010
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English
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Physical Description:
xiii, 566 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
Place of Publication:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Contents:
  • Entrepreneurs : from the Near Eastern takeoff to the Roman collapse / Michael Hudson
  • Neo-Babylonian entrepreneurs / Cornelia Wunsch
  • The scale of entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern history : inhibitive roles of Islamic institutions / Timur Kuran
  • Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in medieval Europe / James M. Murray
  • Tawney's century, 1540-1640 : the roots of modern capitalist entrepreneurship / John Munro
  • The golden age of the Dutch Republic / Oscar Gelderblom
  • Entrepreneurship and the industrial revolution in Britain / Joel Mokyr
  • Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830-1900 / Mark Casson and Andrew Godley
  • History of entrepreneurship : Britain, 1900-2000 / Andrew Godley and Mark Casson
  • History of entrepreneurship : Germany after 1815 / Ulrich Wengenroth
  • Entrepreneurship in France / Michel Hau
  • Entrepreneurship in the antebellum United States / Louis P. Cain
  • Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux
  • Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920-2000 / Margaret B.W. Graham
  • An examination of the supply of financial credit to entrepreneurs in colonial India / Susan Wolcott
  • Chinese entrepreneurship since its late imperial period / Wellington K.K. Chan
  • Entrepreneurship in pre-World War II Japan : the role and logic of the Zaibatsu / Seiichiro Yonekura and Hiroshi Shimizu
  • "Useful knowledge" of entrepreneurship : some implications of the history / William J. Baumol and Robert Strom.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780691143705
  • 0691143706
OCLC:
318874938

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