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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.

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This text provides a scholarly and yet accessible introduction to the legal framework of modern business enterprises. It explains the legal ideas that allow for the recognition of firms as organizational 'persons' having social rights and responsibilities, and how law sets the boundaries of firms.

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This study examines the validity of the widely accepted belief that a deterioration in the quality of British entrepreneurship occured during the nineteenth century. Professor Payne begins by surveying the current state of the debate on the question, in the course of which he discusses the definitional problems associated with the concept of entrepreneurship, the evolution of the structure of British business enterprise, and the social and occupational origins of British entrepreneurs. He then examines the quality of their performance during the Industrial Revolution, the early Victorian period and the decades preceding the First World War. In a comprehensive survey of the literature on this complex subject, he argues that, although there is much more information to be discovered before judgement can definitively be passed on "the British entrepreneur", a proper evaluation must recognise the diversity of entrepreneurial experience. It appears from Professor Payne's work that the pioneer industrialists and traders do not fully deserve the somewhat eulogistic aura that surrounds them ; and that much of the criticism of the performance of the late-Victorian businessman is unjustified. A valuable feature of his study is the survey of areas for future research.

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