Beschreibung:
Ivan Light is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Léo-Paul Dana is professor at Montpellier Business School in France.
This book studies the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital and trace the moral legitimations of capitalism from the reformation to today.
Chapter 1: From Resources to Wealth Chapter 2: Protestant Ethnics Chapter 3: Merchants of Venice Chapter 4: Aleuts of Kodiak Island Chapter 5: Memons of Karachi Chapter 6: Koreans in Los Angeles Chapter 7: An Undercapitalized Billionaire Chapter 8: Economic Supermen Chapter 9: Rogues and Regulators Chapter 10: Two Worlds of Enterprise