The invention of enterprise
Subtitle: entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times
By: edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol.
Contributors: Landes, David S.; Mokyr, Joel.; Baumol, William J.
Series: The Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691143705
Subjects: Entrepreneurship -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Entrepreneurs : from the Near Eastern takeoff to the Roman collapse / Michael Hudson; title: Neo-Babylonian entrepreneurs / Cornelia Wunsch; title: The scale of entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern history : inhibitive roles of Islamic institutions / Timur Kuran; title: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in medieval Europe / James M. Murray; title: Tawney's century, 1540n-1640 : the roots of modern capitalist entrepreneurship / John Munro; title: The golden age of the Dutch Republic / Oscar Gelderblom; title: Entrepreneurship and the industrial revolution in Britain / Joel Mokyr; title: Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830n-1900 / Mark Casson and Andrew Godley; title: History of entrepreneurship : Britain, 1900n-2000 / Andrew Godley and Mark Casson; title: History of entrepreneurship : Germany after 1815 / Ulrich Wengenroth; title: Entrepreneurship in France / Michel Hau; title: Entrepreneurship in the antebellum United States / Louis P. Cain; title: Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865n-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux; title: Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920n-2000 / Margaret B. W. Graham; title: An examination of the supply of financial credit to entrepreneurs in colonial India / Susan Wolcott; title: Chinese entrepreneurship since its late imperial period / Wellington K. K. Chan; title: Entrepreneurship in pre-World War II Japan : the role and logic of the Zaibatsu / Seiichiro Yonekura and Hiroshi Shimizu; title: "Useful knowledge" of entrepreneurship : some implications of the history / William J. Baumol and Robert Strom.