Wealth Creators - Softcover

Gunderson, Gerald A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452265002 ISBN 13: 9780452265004

Publisher: Plume, 1990

Traces the role of entrepreneurs in the development of the U.S., examines the reasons for their success, and suggests their influence on our future

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From the Publisher:

There is no doubt that entrepreneurship is a corollary of American business. The world's most famous entrepreneurs have been American: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Edward H. Harriman, J.P. Morgan, and Pierre du Pont, to name a few. Their very names are synonymous with entrepreneurship. The stories of their success make the concept of entrepreneurship tangible and underline the limitless potential of applying energy and imagination. The American economy provides the largest and richest study of how entrepreneurs have advanced technologies, organizations, and social patterns-in short, the full spectrum of human opportunities. Globalization is one aspect of widespread and robust entrepreneurship. To be sure, business practices spawned and developed here are being used all over the world with some variations. This magnetic book examines the emergence and role of the innovative entrepreneur in the United States from the colonial period to modern times and provides a probing exploration of our unique past.

About the Author:

Gerald Gunderson has been the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, and has been director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, since 1982. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, and North Carolina State University. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of Washington in 1967. Professor Gunderson has published numerous academic papers and has authored columns in more than twenty newspapers in the United States. He served as president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and is now editor of The Journal of Private Enteprise.

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