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- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 566 p.) : ill., maps.
- Series Statement
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship
- Uniform Title
- Invention of enterprise (Online)
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Subject
- Entrepreneurship > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009034315
- OCLC
- ssj0000458820
- Title
The invention of enterprise [electronic resource] : 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
Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Landes, David S.
Mokyr, Joel.
Baumol, William J.