Origins of Enterprise
Title | Origins of Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Katrina Honeyman |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Business enterprises |
ISBN | 9780719008733 |
Free Enterprise
Title | Free Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence B. Glickman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | Economic policy |
ISBN | 0300238258 |
An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how the idea first gained traction in American discourse and was championed by opponents of the New Deal. Those politicians, believing free enterprise to be a fundamental American value, held it up as an antidote to a liberalism that they maintained would lead toward totalitarian statism. Tracing the use of the concept of free enterprise, Glickman shows how it has both constrained and transformed political dialogue. He presents a fascinating look into the complex history, and marketing, of an idea that forms the linchpin of the contemporary opposition to government regulation, taxation, and programs such as Medicare.
The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise
Title | The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis L. McNamara |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1990-04-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521385652 |
This book provides a detailed picture of indigenous capitalism during Japanese colonization of Korea. The author gives a compelling account of key personalities in the Korean business elite and of the personal dilemmas of balancing nationalism against success under dependent, colonial conditions. The author concludes that dependent rather than comprador capitalism characterized leading Korean businesses through 1945.
The Invention of Enterprise
Title | The Invention of Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | David S. Landes |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 2012-02-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1400833582 |
A sweeping global history of entrepreneurial innovation 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 during a particular period and in an 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 crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the United States, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities are not always 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 during different historical periods and the similarities in development, as well as entrepreneurship's role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing contemporary entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society. The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who seek an understanding of innovation's central place in our world.
The Land of Enterprise
Title | The Land of Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin C. Waterhouse |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1476766649 |
Charting the development of American business from the colonial period to the present.
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America
Title | Women and the Historical Enterprise in America PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Des Jardins |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807854754 |
Looks at the works of women historians, from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II, and their impact on the social and cultural history of the United States.
Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy
Title | Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Wapshott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2021-09-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000468925 |
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change. The 1970s in the UK saw the beginning of the end for interventionism and ‘big government’ and the emergence of a new free market, economic liberalism. However, the same period also saw the creation of what became a substantial agenda to intervene in the economy through an extensive range of government initiatives aimed at encouraging and enabling small firms and entrepreneurship. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Bolton Committee’s report this book provides researchers with new insights into the tensions between these potentially contradictory political agendas that would come to shape our modern economy. It provides the first in-depth analysis of the origins, operation and outcomes of the Bolton Committee, which is widely seen as responsible for the small firm agenda in the UK. In doing so, new insights are generated not only into the birth of enterprise policy in the UK but into the wider changes in political economy that saw powerful tensions between free market rhetoric and new forms of interventionism in practice. The book will be of interest to scholars and PhD students working in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business management and business history.