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Format: 1 online resource (252 pages).

ISBN: 9780231542814 (e-book)

Series Statement: Columbia Business School Publishing

Note: Includes index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Carlen, Joe. Brief history of entrepreneurship : the pioneers, profiteers, and racketeers who shaped our world. New York : Columbia University Press, c2016 ISBN 9780231173049

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

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Format: 1 online resource : , 14 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780231542814

Series Statement: Columbia Business School Publishing

Content: 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, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about overland and overseas trade, colonization, and a host of revolutionary technologies—from caffeinated beverages to the personal computer—that have transformed society.Consulting rich archival sources, including some that have never before been translated, Carlen maps the course of human history through nine episodes when entrepreneurship reshaped our world. Highlighting the most colorful characters of each era, he discusses Mesopotamian merchants' creation of the urban market economy; Phoenician merchant-sailors intercontinental trade, which came to connect Africa, Asia, and Europe; Chinese tea traders' invention of paper money; the colonization of the Americas; and the current "flattening" of the world's economic playing field. Yet the pursuit of profit hasn't always moved us forward. From slavery to organized crime, Carlen explores how entrepreneurship can sometimes work at the expense of others. He also discusses the new entrepreneurs who, through the nascent space tourism industry, are leading humanity to a multiplanetary future. By exploring all sides of this legacy, Carlen brings much-needed detail to the role of entrepreneurship in revolutionizing civilization.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , 1. “One Shekel of Your Private Silver” -- , 2. The Pirates of Phoenicia -- , 3. The Reluctant Romans -- , 4. An Enterprising Faith -- , 5. Flying Money and Capitalist Monks -- , 6. Western Europe and a “New World” of Profit -- , 7. Captains of the Revolution -- , 8. The Land of (Entrepreneurial) Opportunity -- , 9. Flattening the World and Colonizing Space -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/carl17304

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/carl17304

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Format: 1 online resource (252 pages).

ISBN: 0-231-54281-X

Series Statement: Columbia Business School Publishing

Content: 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, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about overland and overseas trade, colonization, and a host of revolutionary technologies-from caffeinated beverages to the personal computer-that have transformed society.Consulting rich archival sources, including some that have never before been translated, Carlen maps the course of human history through nine episodes when entrepreneurship reshaped our world. Highlighting the most colorful characters of each era, he discusses Mesopotamian merchants' creation of the urban market economy; Phoenician merchant-sailors intercontinental trade, which came to connect Africa, Asia, and Europe; Chinese tea traders' invention of paper money; the colonization of the Americas; and the current "flattening" of the world's economic playing field. Yet the pursuit of profit hasn't always moved us forward. From slavery to organized crime, Carlen explores how entrepreneurship can sometimes work at the expense of others. He also discusses the new entrepreneurs who, through the nascent space tourism industry, are leading humanity to a multiplanetary future. By exploring all sides of this legacy, Carlen brings much-needed detail to the role of entrepreneurship in revolutionizing civilization.

Note: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , 1. "One Shekel of Your Private Silver" -- , 2. The Pirates of Phoenicia -- , 3. The Reluctant Romans -- , 4. An Enterprising Faith -- , 5. Flying Money and Capitalist Monks -- , 6. Western Europe and a "New World" of Profit -- , 7. Captains of the Revolution -- , 8. The Land of (Entrepreneurial) Opportunity -- , 9. Flattening the World and Colonizing Space -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-17304-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/carl17304