A brief history of entrepreneurship : the pioneers, profiteers, and racketeers who shaped our world /
"Through engaging vignettes, A Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs often butt up against processes, technologies, social conventions, and even laws. So, they circumvent, i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Columbia Business School series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "One shekel of your private silver"
- The pirates of Phoenicia
- The reluctant Romans
- An enterprising faith
- Flying money and capitalist monks
- Western Europe and a "new world" of profit
- Captains of the revolution
- The land of (entrepreneurial) opportunity
- Flattening the world and colonizing space
- Conclusion.