历史上的企业家精神: 从古代美索不达米亚到现代

by David S. Landes

本书不管是被誉为英雄，还是被视为贪婪逐利和破坏社会秩序的败类，企业家及其创新与创业活动都对经济增长和国家繁荣产生着巨大影响。本书首次汇集众多主流经济史学家，探讨古往今来的企业家在经济发展中扮演的重要角色。全书详述了美索不达米亚和新巴比伦时期的创业历史，引领读者回溯至伊斯兰教时期的中东史，提出了有关中国、日本和殖民时期印度企业家精神史的诸多洞见，描述了从中世纪至今企业家在欧洲和美国创新活动中发挥的关键作用。作者们不仅考察了企业家精神的重大贡献，而且探讨了创新和创业活动为何并不总是生产性的，有时甚

688 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2015

About the author

David S. Landes was a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties. Such works have received both praise for detailed retelling of economic history, as well as scorn on charges of blatant Eurocentrism, a charge he embraces explicitly, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis.

Landes earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953 and an A.B. from City College of New York in 1942.

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