Entrepreneurship and Growth: An International Historical Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
A Tale of Four Countries: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in England, France, Scotland, and Spain: A Comparative Approach....Pages 19-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Entrepreneurs and Businessmen in Greece during the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 49-68
Business Groups in Argentina during the Export-Led Growth Period (1870–1914)....Pages 69-91
Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from the Italian Case (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)....Pages 92-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century Spain....Pages 115-132
An Approach to Entrepreneurial Success and Its Determinants: The Case of Spain....Pages 133-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Entrepreneurship and Development: The Minorcan Model (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)....Pages 175-194
Did Spanish High Schools Breed Entrepreneurs? The Madrid Institutos of Cardenal Cisneros and San Isidro, 1860–1936....Pages 195-218
Conclusions....Pages 219-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-248