Entrepreneur in History

Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, UK, based jointly in the Department of Economics and the Henley Business School. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship (2006) and the author of Entrepreneurship: Theory, Networks, History (2010). Catherine Casson is Research Fellow at the Winton Institute of Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK and Teaching Fellow in the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. She is currently researching property rents and prices c.1450-c.1914 and reputation and economic performance in English medieval towns.

• Preface and Acknowledgements 1. A New Research Agenda 2. Perspectives on Entrepreneurship 3. The Historical Significance of the Entrepreneur 4. Case Studies: The Entrepreneur in Context 5. The Social Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship