A History of Entrepreneurship

by Robert F. Hebert and Albert N. Link

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415632412
• ISBN13: 9780415632416
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"