The scale of entrepreneurship in middle eastern history: Inhibitive roles of Islamic institutions

The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 62-87

  Kuran, Timur ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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