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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
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entrepreneurship--History.
- Entrepreneurship.
- History.
- 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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