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The invention of enterprise : entrepreneurship from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times / edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol.
p. cm. (The Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14370-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Entrepreneurship-History. I. Landes, David S. II. Mokyr, Joel. III. Baumol,
William J.
HB701.I58 2010
338'.0409-dc22 2009034315
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Published in collaboration with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, New York University
This book has been composed in Sabon
Printed on acid-free paper. ∞
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