a ISBN 978-06-9114370-5

a ISBN 0-691-14370-6

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number HB701

b Item number .I58 2010

a Title The invention of enterprise:

b Remainder of title entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times/

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, & William J. Baumol.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton, N.J.:

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2010.

a Extent xiii, 566 p.:

b Other physical details ill., maps;

c Dimensions 27 cm.

a Series statement Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note 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.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Entrepreneurship

a Personal name Landes, David S.

a Personal name Mokyr, Joel.

a Personal name Baumol, William J.

a Uniform title Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship.