Capitalist at large
Subtitle: reflections of an international entrepreneur
By: James D. Jameson, with Christina Murray
Contributors: Murray, Christina, author
Publisher: Cobden Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Apple Valley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781935942030
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Biography; Entrepreneurship; Businesspeople
Description: "Capitalist at Large chronicles entrepreneur Jim Jameson's 35-year career building companies in developing and formerly communist countries and details the unique perspective on the world he gained as International President of the Young Presidents' Organization  (YPO) and during a stint as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development in the George H.W. Bush administration. It tells of friendships with revolutionary heroes and domestic entrepreneurs in the emerging Soviet bloc, where he privatized a Polish publishing house after communism, and in Asia, where he helped launch an online bookseller in China. Throughout these experiences, Jameson acknowledges the shortcomings of free market economics while remaining confident that such markets offer the best chance for increased human prosperity. Interspersed with his business and international musings are 'interludes' about the intellectual and spiritual journey that shaped his life decisions and personal success."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Dancing lessons. The inherited world; title: Entrepreneurial beginnings; title: Taking root; title: Taking off ; Interlude I: The answer books ; Part 2: A broader stage. Window on the world; title: The inherited world implodes; title: Washington whirlwind ; Interlude II: Abbey intermissions ; Part 3: The personal art of development. The individual as history maker; title: The wild East; title: Between two worlds; title: Old man on an island ; Interlude III: On top of the world ; Part 4: The next act. The post-post Cold War world; title: World in a bubble; title: Free-for-all to freefall ; Conclusion: Global citizens.