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The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times
- Title
- The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times / edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, & William J. Baumol.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-SIBL HB701 .I58 2010 | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - Yoseloff Business Center - Research Reference |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 566 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This work provides a sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovation activity in the Western world.
- Uniform Title
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- HB701
- ISBN
- 0691143706 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691143705 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009034315
- OCLC
- 318874938
- Title
- The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times / edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, & William J. Baumol.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
- Series
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Mokyr, Joel.Baumol, William J.Landes, David S.
- Research Call Number
- *R-SIBL HB701 .I58 2010 Small Business Central