The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs–and their innovations–have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur’s role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship all the way through a particular period and in the most important geographic location.

The book chronicles the 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 an important role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the USA, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities aren’t all the time productive and may even sabotage prosperity. They examine the institutions and restrictions that have enabled or impeded innovation, and the incentives for the adoption and dissemination of inventions. They also describe the wide variations in global entrepreneurial activity all the way through different historical periods and the similarities in development, in addition to entrepreneurship’s role in economic growth. The book is stuffed with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing latest entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society.

The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who are seeking an understanding of innovation’s central place in our world.

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