Contents

Foreword

CARL J. SCHRAMM

Preface

The Entrepreneur in History

WILLIAM J. BAUMOL

Acknowledgments

WILLIAM J. BAUMOL AND ROBERT J. STROM

 

Introduction

Global Enterprise and Industrial Performance: An Overview

DAVID S. LANDES

Chapter 1

Entrepreneurs: From the Near Eastern Takeoff to the Roman Collapse

MICHAEL HUDSON

Chapter 2

Neo-Babylonian Entrepreneurs

CORNELIA WUNSCH

Chapter 3

The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions

TIMUR KURAN

Chapter 4

Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Medieval Europe

JAMES M. MURRAY

Chapter 5

Tawney's Century, 1540-1640: The Roots of Modern Capitalist Entrepreneurship

JOHN MUNRO

Chapter 6

The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

OSCAR GELDERBLOM

Chapter 7

Entrepreneurship and the Industrial Revolution in Britain

JOEL MOKYR

Chapter 8

Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1830-1900

MARK CASSON AND ANDREW GODLEY

Chapter 9

History of Entrepreneurship: Britain, 1900-2000

ANDREW GODLEY AND MARK CASSON

Chapter 10

History of Entrepreneurship: Germany after 1815

ULRICH WENGENROTH

Chapter 11

Entrepreneurship in France

MICHEL HAU

Chapter 12

Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum United States

LOUIS P. CAIN

Chapter 13

Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865-1920

NAOMI R. LAMOREAUX

Chapter 14

Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1920-2000

MARGARET B. W. GRAHAM

Chapter 15

An Examination of the Supply of Financial Credit to Entrepreneurs in Colonial India

SUSAN WOLCOTT

Chapter 16

Chinese Entrepreneurship since Its Late Imperial Period

WELLINGTON K. K. CHAN

Chapter 17

Entrepreneurship in Pre-World War II Japan: The Role and Logic of the Zaibatsu

SEIICHIRO YONEKURA AND HIROSHI SHIMIZU

Chapter 18

“Useful Knowledge” of Entrepreneurship: Some Implications of the History

WILLIAM J. BAUMOL AND ROBERT J. STROM

 

List of Contributors

Index