The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times /
edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, & William J. Baumol.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
- xiii, 566 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship .
- Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Preface: the entrepreneur in history / Acknowledgments / William J. Baumol and Robert J. Strom -- Introduction: global enterprise and industrial performance: an overview / Entrepreneurs : from the Near Eastern takeoff to the Roman collapse / Neo-Babylonian entrepreneurs / The scale of entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern history : inhibitive roles of Islamic institutions / Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in medieval Europe / Tawney's century, 1540-1640 : the roots of modern capitalist entrepreneurship / The golden age of the Dutch Republic / Entrepreneurship and the industrial revolution in Britain / Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830-1900 / History of entrepreneurship : Britain, 1900-2000 / History of entrepreneurship : Germany after 1815 / Ulrich Wengenroth -- Entrepreneurship in France / Entrepreneurship in the antebellum United States / Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865-1920 / Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920-2000 / An examination of the supply of financial credit to entrepreneurs in colonial India / Chinese entrepreneurship since its late imperial period / Entrepreneurship in pre-World War II Japan : the role and logic of the Zaibatsu / "Useful knowledge" of entrepreneurship : some implications of the history / Carl J. Schramm -- William J. Baumol -- David S. Landes -- Michael Hudson -- Cornelia Wunsch -- Timur Kuran -- James M. Murray -- John Munro -- Oscar Gelderblom -- Joel Mokyr -- Mark Casson and Andrew Godley -- Andrew Godley and Mark Casson -- Michel Hau -- Louis P. Cain -- Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Margaret B.W. Graham -- Susan Wolcott -- Wellington K.K. Chan -- Seiichiro Yonekura and Hiroshi Shimizu -- William J. Baumol and Robert Strom.
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.