The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of Business in the United States

By Larry Schweikart

Book Overview

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE is unique in its positive portrayal of the American entrepreneurial spirit and in its pro-market, pro-entrepreneur perspective. Professor Schweikart emphasizes that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0155084550
• ISBN13: 9780155084551
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Comment on Richard Panton's review

I am the author, and Richard Panton is right with many of his comments. I eagerly await the opportunity to revise this in light of some of the 1999 (when the final editing was done)-present developments. About the only one I would seriously revise is that I expected the tech sector, even with the down turn of 1999, to come back sooner. I still think it will, but there are important structural barriers that have not yet been solved, including "last-mile" hookups, the final disposition of the Bell/Baby Bell cases, lingering effects of the Microsoft lawsuit, and the intervention of world terrorism. I hope to get the chance to start a new edition very soon.

OVERDUE REVISIONISM

Most American historians know much more about economics than a rose-nose mole---but a good deal less than Dyak from backwoods Borneo. So it is that most American History texts, even if otherwise quite passable, incorporate economic wisdom fully formulated by about 1898 and embalmed for the ages sometime around 1938. Larry Schweikart's volume, by contrast, possesses real vitality. It is not only superior to all easily available US history texts, it is also superior to almost all texts I have had occasion to examine. The Entrepreneurial adventure is clearly written and full of interesting insights and anecdotes. It is about real human beings doing real things: from Lydia Pinkham to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. It is not about the suffering "masses" and suchlike academic effigies.