Entrepreneurship and the industrial revolution in Britain

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 183-210

  Mokyr, Joel ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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