LEADER 04002nam 2200673 450 001 9910466133303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54281-X 024 7 $a10.7312/carl17304 035 $a(CKB)3710000000875353 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4692786 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724076 035 $a(DE-B1597)478138 035 $a(OCoLC)1002252265 035 $a(OCoLC)1004883930 035 $a(OCoLC)1011446151 035 $a(OCoLC)959874917 035 $a(OCoLC)979904362 035 $a(OCoLC)999371255 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542814 035 $a(PPN)233899987$9sudoc 035 $a(PPN)201890062 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4692786 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11270755 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL962614 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000875353 100 $a20161010h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA brief history of entrepreneurship $ethe pioneers, profiteers, and racketeers who shaped our world /$fJoe Carlen 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (252 pages) 225 1 $aColumbia Business School Publishing 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-17304-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. "One Shekel of Your Private Silver" -- $t2. The Pirates of Phoenicia -- $t3. The Reluctant Romans -- $t4. An Enterprising Faith -- $t5. Flying Money and Capitalist Monks -- $t6. Western Europe and a "New World" of Profit -- $t7. Captains of the Revolution -- $t8. The Land of (Entrepreneurial) Opportunity -- $t9. Flattening the World and Colonizing Space -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aA Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs often butt up against processes, technologies, social conventions, and even laws. So they circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about overland and overseas trade, colonization, and a host of revolutionary technologies-from caffeinated beverages to the personal computer-that have transformed society.Consulting rich archival sources, including some that have never before been translated, Carlen maps the course of human history through nine episodes when entrepreneurship reshaped our world. Highlighting the most colorful characters of each era, he discusses Mesopotamian merchants' creation of the urban market economy; Phoenician merchant-sailors intercontinental trade, which came to connect Africa, Asia, and Europe; Chinese tea traders' invention of paper money; the colonization of the Americas; and the current "flattening" of the world's economic playing field. Yet the pursuit of profit hasn't always moved us forward. From slavery to organized crime, Carlen explores how entrepreneurship can sometimes work at the expense of others. He also discusses the new entrepreneurs who, through the nascent space tourism industry, are leading humanity to a multiplanetary future. By exploring all sides of this legacy, Carlen brings much-needed detail to the role of entrepreneurship in revolutionizing civilization. 410 0$aColumbia Business School series. 606 $aCommerce$xHistory 606 $aEntrepreneurship$xHistory 606 $aBusinesspeople$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommerce$xHistory. 615 0$aEntrepreneurship$xHistory. 615 0$aBusinesspeople$xHistory. 676 $a338/.0409 700 $aCarlen$b Joe$01038657 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466133303321 996 $aA brief history of entrepreneurship$92460384 997 $aUNINA