The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times /

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 t...

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Otros Autores: Landes, David S., Mokyr, Joel, Baumol, William J.
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship
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260 |a Princeton, N.J. ;  |a Woodstock :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a xiii, 566 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 26 cm. 
490 1 |a The Kauffman foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship 
500 |a Originally published: 2010. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Foreword / Carl J. Schramm -- Preface: the entrepreneur in history / William J. Baumol -- Acknowledgments / William J. Baumol and Robert J. Strom -- Introduction: global enterprise and industrial performance: an overview / David S. Landes -- 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 -- 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Entrepreneurship  |x History. 
650 7 |a Aptitudes empresariales  |x Historia.  |2 UDESA 
700 1 |a Landes, David S. 
700 1 |a Mokyr, Joel. 
700 1 |a Baumol, William J. 
830 0 |a Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship