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The invention of enterprise entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times

Title
The invention of enterprise [electronic resource] : 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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Additional Authors
  • Landes, David S.
  • Mokyr, Joel.
  • Baumol, William J.
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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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Landes, David S.
Mokyr, Joel.
Baumol, William J.
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