Landes / Mokyr / Baumol The Invention of Enterprise

Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3358-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten

Reihe: The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

David S. Landes is the Coolidge Professor of History and professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University. Joel Mokyr is the Robert Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University. William J. Baumol is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Landes, David S.

Mokyr, Joel

Baumol, William J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Carl J. Schramm vii
Preface: The Entrepreneur in History by William J. Baumol ix

Acknowledgments by William J. Baumol and Robert J. Strom xv

Introduction: Global Enterprise and Industrial Performance: An Overview by David S. Landes 1

Chapter 1: Entrepreneurs: From the Near Eastern Takeoff to the Roman Collapse by Michael Hudson 8

Chapter 2: Neo-Babylonian Entrepreneurs Cornelia Wunsch 40

Chapter 3: The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions by Timur Kuran 62

Chapter 4: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Medieval Europe by James M. Murray 88

Chapter 5: Tawney's Century, 1540-1640: The Roots of Modern Capitalist Entrepreneurship by John Munro 107

Chapter 6: The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic Oscar Gelderblom 156

Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship and the Industrial Revolution in Britain by Joel Mokyr 183

Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830-1900 by Mark Casson and Andrew Godley 211

Chapter 9: History of Entrepreneurship: Britain, 1900-2000 by Andrew Godley and Mark Casson 243

Chapter 10: History of Entrepreneurship: Germany after 1815 by Ulrich Wengenroth 273

Chapter 11: Entrepreneurship in France by Michel Hau 305

Chapter 12: Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum United States by Louis P. Cain 331

Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865-1920 by Naomi R. Lamoreaux 367

Chapter 14: Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920-2000 by Margaret B. W. Graham 401

Chapter 15: An Examination of the Supply of Financial Credit to Entrepreneurs in Colonial India by Susan Wolcott 443

Chapter 16: Chinese Entrepreneurship since Its Late Imperial Period by Wellington K. K. Chan 469

Chapter 17: Entrepreneurship in Pre-World War II Japan: The Role and Logic of the Zaibatsu by Seiichiro Yonekura and Hiroshi Shimizu 501

Chapter 18: "Useful Knowledge" of Entrepreneurship: Some Implications of the History by William J. Baumol and Robert J. Strom 527

List of Contributors 543

Index 545

Über Autor(innen)

David S. Landes is the Coolidge Professor of History and professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University. Joel Mokyr is the Robert Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University. William J. Baumol is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business.