Posts Tagged ‘History’

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, To 1865

July 18th, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780807859100
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic liberation through business activities and entrepreneurship has remained noticeably absent from the historical record. Juliet Walker’s award-winning History of Black Business in America is the only source that provides a detailed study of the continuity, diversity, and multiplicity of independent self-help economic activ… More >>

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, To 1865

A History of Entrepreneurship

June 15th, 2010

Product Description
This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in economic literature as early as the eighteenth century, when Richard Cantillon first coined the term ‘entrepreneur’. The authors then trace how Joseph Schumpeter’s perspec… More >>

A History of Entrepreneurship