| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 566 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship
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Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Entrepreneurship -- History.
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Entrepreneurship. |
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History. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Entrepreneurship. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. |
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Unternehmensgründung. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Landes, David S., editor.
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Mokyr, Joel, editor.
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Baumol, William J., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Invention of enterprise. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691143705 (DLC) 2009034315 (OCoLC)318874938 |
| ISBN |
9781400833580 (electronic book) |
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1400833582 (electronic book) |
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1282458027 |
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9781282458024 |
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1282936042 |
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9781282936041 |
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9786612458026 |
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661245802X |
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9786612936043 |
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6612936045 |
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9780691143705 |
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0691143706 |
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9780691154527 |
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