Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 7, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(2):421-424; doi:10.1093/es/khl036
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Youssef Cassis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. Entrepreneurship in Theory and History
Youssef Cassis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. Entrepreneurship in Theory and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 211 pp. ISBN 1-4039-3947-0, $65.00 (cloth)
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In a paper delivered during the founding of Harvard's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, Joseph Schumpeter commented, "Personally, I believe that there is an incessant give and take between historical and theoretical analysis and that, though for the investigation of individual questions it may be necessary to sail for a time on one tack only, yet on principle the two should never lose sight of each other" [Joseph Schumpeter, "Economic Theory and Entrepreneurial History," in Change and the Entrepreneur (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949), p. 264]. With the notable exception of the theoretically inspired work produced at the Research Center in the early 1950s, historians largely
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